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From: kudla@rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla)
Subject: Re: PC Pursuit???
In-Reply-To: set@phobos.cis.ksu.edu's message of 25 Apr 91 21: 37:11 GMT
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Date: 26 Apr 91 14:23:06 GMT
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In article <1991Apr25.213711.13496@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> set@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Steve E Tietze ) writes:

   Its getting very expensive to use BBS systems out of state..  My Phone Bill
   it making me pore..  Then someone told me about Pc pur.  that lets you
   use rent out a line for Unlimited calls for only like 30 to $40 a month.
   Does any one have any info on this ?

I subscribed to PC Pursuit (offered by GTE/Sprint) for about six
months and found it to be very worthwhile for 2400 baud data calls.
If you make more than about 3 or 4 hours of calls per month it will
save you lots of money.  Here's the deal....

$30 a month gets you 30 hours of long distance data calls to selected
cities; $50 gets you 60 hours.  You can use it 24 hours a day, but
between the hours of 7 am and 6 pm weekdays, you get charged $10 an
hour of "prime time surcharge", which is still cheaper than AT&T's day
rates. 

It's a great deal, but one caveat:  you really have to use a windowed
protocol such as Zmodem for file transfers or you'll be looking at 50%
throughput.  You also get substantially discounted rates to
People/Link, which admittedly is a dying service but still has good
downloads and bulletin boards at times depending on what you want.  I
only quit PC Pursuit because I didn't have time to make lots of BBS
calls and as a result, AT&T's reach out america plan was actually
slightly cheaper (I do about 2 or 3 hours of long distance BBSing per
month now).

To get information on subscribing, dial 1-800-TELENET.  I think
they've changed to another 800 number now but that one will tell you
where to call for your specific question.

Hope this helps.....

Robert Jude Kudla <kudla@rpi.edu>
                                   
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