Path: utzoo!utgpu!canet-d-owner
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Subject: Re: UUCP Services
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References: <1991Jan11.122318.27039@nstn.ns.ca>
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 1991 11:50:47 -0500
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
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In article <1991Jan11.122318.27039@nstn.ns.ca> you write:
>Hello!
>
>NSTN is planning to offer UUCP accounts.  UUCP will be probably be provided
>by a SparcStation running SunOS, and a single directly-connected Telebit
>Trailblazer.  Our planned rates are 75$/month subscription, plus .25$/minute.  
>Downstreaming of sites won't be allowed, but sites will have a FQDN for a 
>site name, which I imagine should be both convenient and upwardly-mobile.

I don't mean to tell you what prices to charge, or to claim to know the
situation in the Maritimes, but it is worth noting that the going rate in
the USA is $30/month plus $2/HOUR  (3.3 cents/minute) and 24 cents/minute
gets you 800 number access during prime time hours from anywhere in the
USA, 15 cents/minute at night.   And downstreaming is allowed.   And
several companies are competing doing this and making money.   One
of them, PSInet, goes for the same $75/month but has *no* connect charges,
full and unlimited mail and news feed included in that $75, with local
dialups in most major U.S. cities.

I know the Canadian telecom system is worse than the USA, but am I the
only one who feels that this is too much of a difference?