Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!nrl-cmf!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!killer.Dallas.TX.US!rissa From: rissa@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Patricia O Tuama) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: PC-Pursuit BIG Price Increase (fwd) Message-ID: Date: 31 Dec 88 14:52:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 33 o Cap on Free Usage. Your $30 per month will now pay for up to 30 monthly hours of non-prime time usage. Using the full 30 hours in one month amounts to an hourly rate of only $1.00 -- more than 85% less than you would pay with the most popular long distance discount service. Only a small fraction of you will even be affected by this cap. what is this cap on "free" usage business? when has pcp ever been free? does anyone have any idea what this small fraction of users who use > 30 hours/month is? o Over Cap Rate. Non-prime time usage, above the 30 hour cap, will be billed at $4.50 per hour, which is about half of the next lowest rate in the market place. or i suppose you could just sign up for more than one account and get 60 hours for $60 instead of 60 hours for $165 or 90 hours for $90 instead of 90 hours for $300 o Second Tier Rates. There will be a second level of rates for those who use the service at business levels. When your total monthly usage exceeds 60 hours, both prime time and non-prime time rates will increase for those hours in excess of 60, as follows: i heard at&t was getting ready to come out with a service similar to pcp -- does anyone know anything about this? trisha