Path: utzoo!utgpu!lsuc!ncrcan!moegate!soley
From: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: tor.news
Subject: Re: Telebit vs. X.25
Message-ID: <302@moegate.UUCP>
Date: 16 May 89 12:32:00 GMT
References: <1989May14.165359.21028@telly.on.ca> <1989May15.152513.6797@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment
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>In article <1989May14.165359.21028@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>4) Can anyone confirm what I've heard as rumour, that Telebit
>   LD links for news feeds are actually cheaper than X.25?

The arithmetic is pretty simple, between two points in Ontario Datapac costs
between $3 and $6 per Kilo-packet or 256K, direct dial long distance rarely 
exceeds $.30/minute. I won't bore anyone with the actual calculations, the 
resulting costs end up looking something like:

	Datapac: 1.1 - 2.3 cents/Kilobyte
	TeleBit: 0.6       cents/Kilobyte

The Telebit costs go down even further if you use then after 11PM, the other
thing you can do with trailblazers that is not recommended with lesser modems
is run them on WATS lines. 

The CRTC announced this morning that Bell has been ordered to stop subsidizing
data services from regular telephone service income, as a result prices will be
going up June 5th for DataPac, Inet2000, Envoy 100, Dataroute and more.

-- 
Norman Soley - The Communications Guy - Ontario Ministry of the Environment
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