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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,can.uucp
Subject: Re: PC Pursuit pricing amendment
Message-ID: <2118@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 89 22:20:10 GMT
References: <8901050251.AA14569@nessus.telenet.com> <2384@isis.UUCP> <7400@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates, Vancouver, BC.
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In article <7400@chinet.chi.il.us> patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson) writes:
>Long distance may not be (to you) inexpensive, but I think it is quite a
>bargain. In any event, Telenet is asking for $1 per hour, and has agreed to
>permit multiple accounts per user/household. If you think $1 per hour is
>some sort of ripoff, then I cannot understand why you even own a modem. You
>say 'at $30 per month PCP will cost more than your monthly phone bill...'
>and I can only assume your monthly phone bill is somewhere between $25-30
>per month since you did not offer this complaint when PCP was charging $25
>per month. What do you think your phone bill would be without PCP? Or would
>you simply not make as many long distance data calls?
>

I agree. I only wish we could get it up here in Canada.

I think that Telenet might want to go one step farther and not ask you to
buy multiple accounts, but just bill a flat $1/hr after the first 30 hours.

Otherwise you are going to have to guestimate your usage to the closest 30 
hours and pre-subsribe for that amount. Also it will be a royal pain in the
ass to have to change you dialing scripts after you exceed each 30 hour
increment to use a new account number.

Another alternative would be to introduce a different type of service
(seeing as they are introducing one new service, a second shouldn't be that
hard). Have an Extended PC Pursuit service. Charge $50/month plus $1/hr
after the first 50 hours. 

Now, how about all you folks suggesting to Telenet in your messages to them
that it would be nice if your northern neighbours could use PC Pursuit as
well! We'd even pay the bills in $US. Now that we have free trade why
shouldn't we get access to some of these neat services?



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Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca {ubc-cs,uunet}!van-bc!sl     Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532