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From: campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Fcc Regs/Data Comm.
Message-ID: <1517@redsox.bsw.com>
Date: 3 Jan 90 04:21:56 GMT
References: <31A.news.misc@pro-generic> <70194@looking.on.ca> <1970@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: campbell@redsox.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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In article <1970@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
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-  I miss your reasoning here. We are already paying by the message unit,
-why charge a higher rate, too? Long calls already cost more than short
-calls in most areas, why stick modem users with a surcharge on top of
-that.

I don't know about "most areas", but here in Boston, residential telephones
are flat rate.  I pay a flat monthly rate no matter how much I use my
telephone.

Actually there is a message unit option -- you can choose to pay a lower
monthly rate and then pay message units, but the difference in the monthly
charge is only something like six or seven bucks, so no one ever picks that
option.

Flat rates are available only to residential customers;  business customers
always pay message units.
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Larry Campbell                          The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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