Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: mcvax!cgch!wtho@uunet.uu.net (Tom Hofmann) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Overseas Calling Card Rates Message-ID: Date: 30 Aug 89 12:07:34 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: WRZ, CIBA-GEIGY Ltd, Basel, Switzerland Lines: 27 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 338, message 4 of 7 From article , by covert@covert. enet.dec.com (John R. Covert 25-Aug-1989 0931): > Calling to the U.S. from Germany, paid in Germany: > One message unit (DM 0.23) every 1.882 seconds M-F noon-midnight, every 2.28 > seconds at other times. This works out, at the exchange rate of 1.9555 quoted > in today's paper, to be DM 7.33 or $3.75 per minute during the higher rate > period or DM 6.05 or $3.10 per minute during the cheap rate period. Since > hotels charge between DM.50 and DM.70 per message unit, a person calling the > U.S. from a hotel could be shocked with a charge of $114.13 for a ten minute > call to the U.S. instead of the $37.50 the call would have cost if directly > dialled from a private phone or $14.75 if placed through USA-Direct. > [Source for German rates: Postbuch der Deutschen Bundespost] Your information is out of date. The price for one message unit is still DM 0.23 but the time for one unit on calls to the U.S. has increased to almost 4 seconds (I have no exact information at hand). The rate for one minute is therefore about DM 3.50 or $1.80 (all day---there is no longer a cheap rate period for overseas calls). It is still correct, however, that hotels charge up to DM .70 for a DM .23 unit. Tom Hofmann wtho@cgch.UUCP