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From: bird@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Walters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: PC Pursuit
Message-ID: <7162@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 7 Jan 89 02:02:57 GMT
References: <8901060416.AA16059@crash.cts.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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> Considering the costly alternatives available today, many of us chose PC
> Pursuit (quite a few of us actually jumped at the opportunity) because it was
> (and in most case, even =WITH= the rate increase and hour cap, still is) one
> hell of a deal. Considering that for the past two years I've reaped an
> average savings of $750 a month over what AT&T rates would have been for my
> =NON-BUSINESS= use of this TeleNET service in my hobbyist pursuit of good
> message-bases.

It Appears to me that the folks at PCP are not being unreasonable at
all with their rate increases, except for BBS systems. Without them,
there would be no reason for users to call (without the BBS there is
nothing at all to call). It then follows that PCP should have one rate
for users and another for sysops. The rate for sysops is needed so they
can exchange files/information needed by their users at a reasonable
rate.

If one looks at the AT&T rates for "Reach out America," we see that the
charge is $10 for the first hour and $7.55 (real close, might not be 
exact)  for each additional hour. This gives us $228/30 hours. If PCP is
$30/30 hours it then follows that PCP is: 30 : 30 :: 228 : X = 228 which
means that AT&T is 228% more expensive than PCP. Is this something to
bitch about?

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				Joe Walters att!ihlpf!bird   
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