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From: arnief@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Arnie Frisch)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: time accuracy in telephone service billing
Message-ID: <7560@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 25 May 90 15:12:42 GMT
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Reply-To: arnief@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Arnie Frisch)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <1021@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> grege@gold.GVG.TEK.COM (Greg Ebert) writes:
>Hey, those guys have a little racket going on: You are charged for every
>minute, or fraction thereof. So, if I make a call for 61 seconds, it will
>cost as much as one lasting 119 seconds.


What's worse is that some start charges about 30 seconds after you've
completed dialing -

IRRESPECTIVE OF WHETHER OR NOT YOUR CALL WAS COMPLETED!

Arnold Frisch
Tektronix Laboratories