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From: HWT@bnr.ca (H.W.)
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Subject: Re: Best and Worst (was: Labor Day, 1990)
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Date: 5 Sep 90 19:00:00 GMT
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In comp.dcom.telecom, TELECOM Moderator writes:

>[Moderator's Note: Alright, fine. If the USA does *not* have what I
>described, then what country *does* have it? If TELECOM Digest was

Canada

As still a holdout of monoply telephone systems we have:

- excellent service (Bell Canada Ontario Region newsletters says:
   "There are no CRTC reportables (levels of service not meeting our
   regulator's standards), and we continue to achieve substantial gains
   in customer sensitive measures.  Our Report Rate of 2.22 is almost
   10 per cent better than last year.

   Similarly, customer complaints per 100,000 accounts of 12.5 for
   the year by June's end is an improvement of almost 20 per cent over
   the same period last year."

- decent rates - real local service here (one Bell supplied phone, touchtone)
  is $15.50 Canadian (my data line)

- very high percentage of the public that has phones (95+, I think)

- an all digital toll network

- the toll rate Ottawa to New York is $0.52 per minute prime time, dropping to
  $0.34 and $0.21 in discount periods.  Ottawa to Toronto (500 kilometres)
  is $0.38/$0.25/$0.15  The discount is 35% 6pm to 11 pm Monday to Friday, and
  60% 11 pm to 8 am Monday to Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday

- and the headline in the Bell Canada newsletter is "Bell files proposal to
  reduce LD rates".

Obnoxious net.canadian that I am, there's some hard numbers.


Henry Troup - BNR owns but does not share my opinions available today
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