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From: rick@kimbal.UUCP (Rick Kimball)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: FYI -- PC-P Price "Increase"
Message-ID: <824@kimbal.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jan 89 10:25:15 GMT
References: <7342@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Mac Source BBS, Altamonte Springs, FL (407)862-6214
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From article <7342@chinet.chi.il.us>, by ptownson@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Townson):
> Still, even with the price increase -- even a 100 percent increase caused by
> running a few hours over the allotment -- PCP is the best bargain in town
> for long distance data connections. The cheapest rates you can get on direct
> dial via the phone network is $7.55 per hour late at night on Reach Out
> America. 12.5 cents per minute, compared to less than a cent per minute on
> PCP within the thirty hour time frame. 

Eric,

Your missing the point about the price increase.  They are trying
to charge premium prices for a service which is not.  If I could
achieve the same thoughput over a PC-Pursuit connection as I could
with a direct dial then it would be a bargin.  However, at 2400
baud they best I could get was about 130 cps.  Also, with
PC-Pursuit it is not unreasonable to wait an hour just to get a
Telenet port in the city with which you would like to connect.
When was the last time you waited an hour for a dialtone?  On top
of that, wouldn't you scream to the FCC if the phone company
started billing you the second you received that dialtone?  Well
that's the way it works with PC-Pursuit.

If they don't change their thinking on the pricing struture I will
have to drop they service.  Currently I'm using about 50 hours a
month getting a usenet feed at 1200 baud (2400 didn't work any
faster).  That sure makes a Trailblazer look like a bargin.

I think that PC-Pursuit was a scam dreamed up by some lawyer types
at Telenet so that they could defeat the access charges that were
being considered by the FCC.  They have no achieved their goal and
now they don't care anything about the typical PC-Pursuit user.


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