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From: jcp@cgch.uucp (Joseph C. Pistritto)
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Subject: PTT's Which Bill in Message Units
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Date: 19 Mar 90 10:58:45 GMT
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They will indeed rent you a counter device to count your calls,
however, they will also refuse to accept its results to 'adjust' your
bill if they make a mistake.  Only the counter in the PTT is
official.

Speaking of the cost of billing, I pay an extra 5 Swiss Francs (about
3 US $) a month to get itemized billing on my phone in Switzerland.
Now, it might amaze some of you Americans out there that you can be
CHARGED for billing, but after living in Europe for a while, you get
used to things like that.  (After all, didn't the KGB charge the
families of executed persons for the bullets...)

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Joseph C. Pistritto  HB9NBB N3CKF
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