Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: FYI -- PC-P Price "Increase" Message-ID: <2572@looking.UUCP> Date: 1 Jan 89 00:25:21 GMT References: <572@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Lines: 20 Some people won't be satisfied with anything. Telenet gives an amazing bargain, which people like so much that they swamp it far beyond what Telenet expected, and then they put a very reasonable cap on it to help controll the excessive demand, and all people can do is complain? Be thankful you have free market forces down there. In Canada, where telecom is still regulated, you have to pay $31 per month just to get a Datapac account! That's right, just an account, NO usage included. Outdial usage costs about $5 or more per hour. Oh yes, there's also a $65 "installation" charge for the account. Other people would kill for a service like the new PC-Pursuit. Let's be honest. People who were running full time conferences and usenet transfers over PC-pursuit were abusing it, and you had every reason to expect that they would want to charge for this sort of thing. Fact is, too many people took the "unlimited" too literally, and so they have changed it. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473