Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Phone rates falling!
Keywords: bctel long distance
Message-ID: <3564@looking.on.ca>
Date: 27 Jun 89 15:08:20 GMT
References: <153@unifax.UUCP> <424@moegate.UUCP>
Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Lines: 12
Class: correction

That's a joke.  Datapac rates rising!  While they were not bad 10 years
ago, today they are a joke.

In the USA, the cost of long distance data links 9600 bps and under had
fallen by a factor of TEN in the last few years.  In Canada it has gone
up.  The US x.25 companies like Telenet & Tymnet all now sell off their
off-peak time for peanuts -- $1/hour in quanity.  This has caused a
whole new industry in consumer computing to spring up.

The cost for high-speed links in the US is reportedly much lower, too.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473