Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!van-bc!cynic!curt From: curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt J. Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Big Brother charging for modem use? Message-ID: <1991Mar23.225552.4596@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 23 Mar 91 22:55:52 GMT References: <1991Mar16.042030.18706@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1991Mar23.025428.6672@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Organization: Mad Artists' Technological Hangout Lines: 25 In article <1991Mar23.025428.6672@ddsw1.MCS.COM> zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) writes: > Most BBSes are hobbies, not businesses, even if they > do take money. Maybe if the classification was called high-volume or > low-volume I wouldn't mind, because that is the reason (I think) that > business rates are more. (Yet they give volume discounts. . .) This, at least in Canada, is not the reason that residential telephone lines cost only twenty to twenty-five percent as much as business lines. According to B.C. Tel, the "real" cost of a telephone line is about thirty dollars per month. Residental lines are about fifteen dollars per month and business lines are about sixty to seventy-five dollars per month. The CRTC (Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, which is similar to the USA's FCC), which regulates the prices that may be charged for telephone service, has a policy of setting residental rates lower than cost and letting them be subsidised by business lines and long-distance calls. cjs -- | "It is actually a feature of UUCP that the map of curt@cynic.uucp | all systems in the network is not known anywhere." curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca | --Berkeley Mail Reference Manual (Kurt Schoens)