Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!bionet!agate!telecom-request From: wrs@mcshh.hanse.de (Wolfgang R. Schulz) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: MCI Card for Germans Includes $15 Gift Message-ID: Date: 25 Mar 91 21:12:54 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 33 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 239, Message 9 of 9 david@cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson) writes: > As we in Australia have access to Call USA (0014 881 100) what are > MCI's rates for such a credit card call from Australia to the USA? Is > there any financial advantage over OTC's rates? David: Why not just call that toll free number and ask for the rate, so it would be easy to compare. From Germany this is very clear: after the third minute you start saving using the MCI Card towards the national PTT's direct dial rates. For DD we pay DM 0.23 (the message unit price), which is approximatly fifteen cents, and for a call to the U.S.A. you get 4.42 seconds for a unit. MCI Call USA charges a $2 basic fee, $1.68 for the first minute and $1.03 for each additional minute. If you take your calculator, you will see that in the third minute both charges are the same, for shorter calls, DD is cheaper, for longer calls MCI becomes more and more cheaper. I bet it will be the same in Australia. Wolfgang R. Schulz, Hamburg, Germany BTX (and phone): 0405521878 Bang: ...unido!mcshh!wrs UUCP: wrs@mcshh.UUCP Internet: wrs@mcshh.hanse.de MCI: 241-2526