Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ulysses!attibr!althea!halloran
From: halloran@althea.UUCP (Robert Halloran)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: FYI -- PC-P Price "Increase"
Message-ID: <38@althea.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 89 17:28:30 GMT
Organization: Shakedown Street Public Access Unix - New Brunswick, NJ
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In article <7428@chinet.chi.il.us> patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson) writes:
>In article <158@usl-pc.usl.edu>  writes:
>>
>>I have no problem with $1 per hour. I do have a problem with the
>>rapidly escalating rates -- $4.50/hour, then $7.50/hour. 
>>
>>I use PC Pursuit to call BBS's. I average about 60 hours a month. I'd
>>be quite willing to pay for such usage, but not at rates that make Ma
>>Bell look great. Getting a Trailblazer, Reach Out America ($7.10/hour
>>after the first hour) and a limited personal newsfeed for myself would
>>make better sense than using PC Pursuit after the first 30 hours.
>
>Telenet rates: 30 x $1 = $30
>               30 x $4.50 = $135.00   Total 60 hours = $165.00
>
>AT&T Reach Out  60 x 7.10 = $426.00 
>
>Who comes up looking great?

Actually, AT&T plus a Trailblazer.  Remember, the Telebit works at 9600 baud
with error correction.  The 60 hours over PCP drops to 7.5 (actually I
seem to recall that the Reach Out plan charges in full hours, so it's
8).  The comparison becomes:

	New PCP: 60 hours @ 1200	$165.00
	AT&T+TB: 8 hours @ 9600	 	$ 56.80

Given that the T1000 (9600 with spoofing, w/out compression) goes for $800 list,
you'd recover the cost of the replacement modem in about seven months.  If the
rumor that Telebit is about to have another half-price promotion for disgruntled
PCP users is true, the TB+ (add 19.2K in, on-the-fly compression) would go for
about $675 for the external unit; you'd recover that cost even sooner.

						Bob Halloran
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