Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!haven!umbc3!cbw1!brian
From: brian@cbw1.UUCP (Brian Cuthie)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: PC Pursuit pricing amendment
Message-ID: <133@cbw1.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 89 15:53:56 GMT
References: <8901050251.AA14569@nessus.telenet.com> <2384@isis.UUCP> <7420@chinet.chi.il.us> <15401@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: brian@cbw1.UMD.EDU (Brian Cuthie)
Organization: CBW, Columbia, MD 21046
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In article <15401@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>If I may step in for a moment....
[...]
>
>No; but as I see it, people seem to feel that what GTE did is different.
>A more appropriate analogy would be going into an inexpensive restaurant,
>buying the all-you-can-eat salad bar, and upon leaving, being presented
>with a big bill and the explanation, `oh, we dropped the all-you-can-eat
>deal while you were eating.'
>

No, I would ammend this to read:

A person likes going to an all-you-can-eat place and finds one day that the
sign reads: "Notice, all-you-can-eat policy will be terminated in 3 months."
The result being that the person finds a new place to eat.

Telenet is *not* changing the billing status of their system in mid use.
They *are* giving 3 months notice of a change in that service.   Perfectly
fair.

As a side note, I haven't quite figured out what it is that makes people
think that businesses exist for their pleasure.  Telenet was *never*
intended to do anything but make big $$$$ during the day from other
businesses.   They recognized excess capacity at night could be used by home
computer hobbiests.  They structured their rates according to what they, at
that time, thought were fair.  How could they know that some people would
use more that 100 hours per month.

Actually, I don't understand what the big complaint is.  PCP is effectively
$1.00/hour to anywhere you like (that they serve, of course).  Long distance
phone rates are more like $15.00/hour.  Considering that you may now buy as
many hours at $1.00/hour that you like (albeit in 30 hour increments), WHAT
IS THE BASIS OF ALL THE BELLY ACHING ????

-brian

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Brian D. Cuthie                                 uunet!umbc3!cbw1!brian
Columbia, MD                                    brian@umbc3.umd.edu