Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: hamilton@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Wayne Hamilton) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Overseas Calling Card Rates Message-ID: Date: 1 Sep 89 16:23:32 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 23 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 342, message 10 of 10 > 7 AM to 7 PM $2.69 for the first minute; $1.53 each additional minute. > An 80 cent surcharge is added for the use of the card. However in fairness, > two reps said it was not added, and one said it was. From 7 PM to 7 AM > it was $2.06 for the first minute, and $1.02 each additional minute. > > For three minutes then, the day charge is $2.69 times 3 = $8.07 > At night, this would be $2.06 times 3 = $6.18 Shouldn't that be 2.69+(2*1.53)=$5.75 and 2.06+(2*1.02)=$4.10? wayne hamilton U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL UUCP: {convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!osiris!hamilton ARPA: hamilton@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu USMail: Box 476, Urbana, IL 61801 CSNET: hamilton%osiris@uiuc.csnet Phone: (217)384-4310 [Moderator's Note: Yes and no, depending. Here in the USA we pay more for the first minute only, because surcharges, the operator's costs, etc are factored into it. Additional minutes incur none of these extra charges. But my comparison was intended to match the three minutes from Mexico. I guess your way of stating it is better, but it leaves the discrepancy even larger between calls to/from USA <==> Mexico on the Card, doesn't it. PT]