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From: johns@scroff.uk.sun.com (John Slater)
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Subject: Re: Phone Service in the UK Two Decades Ago
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Date: 10 Dec 90 11:58:43 GMT
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|> Few pizza places in England have heard of delivery service.  When I
|> was at the University of Essex, the local pizza place said `of course,
|> we deliver' ... to the central loading dock of the school, that is.

|> Not a one of my flatmates (20 of them, all Brits) had ever heard of
|> having a pizza delivered.

How long ago was this? Two large chains (Perfect Pizza and Domino)
have offered delivery services for, oh, three years at least. It *is*
a relatively new phenomenon, though.

|> ObPhone question: Why is it that a UK -> US phone call is much more
|> expensive than a US -> UK call?

I would dearly like to know the answer to this. From 1 December
Mercury cut their economy rate to the US by 15%, so it now costs 40p
per minute (plus tax, which makes it 44.5p). Reach Out World comes in
at 59c per minute to the UK, with an additional 5% discount afetr the
first ten minutes of each call.  Despite the rate cut it's still more
than 50% more expensive westbound than eastbound.


John Slater    Sun Microsystems UK, Gatwick Office