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From: BILL.BLOMGREN@p6.f889.n106.z1.fidonet.org (BILL BLOMGREN)
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Subject: THOUGHT
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Date: 13 Jan 90 12:06:00 GMT
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>LMS, if done properly, is about the sanest way to charge for service. 
>The rates need to be much lower than rates currently in use in many 
>parts of the country. This makes phone lines essentially free to those 
>who use them sparsely, and reasonable for those of us who tie them up 

Well, down here the current Genitel suggestion is that both RECEIVER and
ORIGINATOR get billed for a telephone call.  That means 1) Boards will 
go out of business (Can you afford the equivalent of a continuous long 
distance bill)... 2) Grandmothers who only have the phone for 
communications go out of business.... and so on. 

They would like us, nay LOVE us, to think that!  Frankly, when it 
happens, there will not be any telephone service in this house. I won't 
have a service that I can't control the billing on myself... and doing a
fixed charge is easy... Doing long distance is easy.. you just don't 
call..but the local measured service with both ends getting charged? 
NOPE.  They want to hit you every time you pick up the phone....

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