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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:16224 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8188 comp.unix.sys5.r4:9304 comp.unix.misc:16126 comp.os.linux.development:23575 comp.os.linux.misc:35613 comp.os.386bsd.development:3228 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5474 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!nntp.cac.washington.edu!olsenc From: olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu (Clint Olsen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: flat rates for Internet/phone (Re: X on dial-in) Date: 22 Feb 1995 18:56:55 GMT Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3ig1dn$6l5@nntp1.u.washington.edu> References: <D3s19v.4M7@pe1chl.ampr.org> <hastyD4BEzu.Jx0@netcom.com> <root.793371940@c00037-5pa.eos.ncsu.edu> <D4DH09.BAo@pe1chl.ampr.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: kodiak.ee.washington.edu In article <D4DH09.BAo@pe1chl.ampr.org>, Rob Janssen <pe1chl@wab-tis.rabobank.nl> wrote: >In <root.793371940@c00037-5pa.eos.ncsu.edu> camattin@eos.ncsu.edu (Chris A. Mattingly) writes: > >>By that philosophy, since I only use the phone about 3% of the month, I should >>only have to pay 3% of my current phone bill. Will this ever happen? No. > >No, your current phone bill is based on the fact that you use it only >3% of the month. When you would use it all the time, your bill would >go up. I can use my phone service as long as I please and the billing does not change. >Boy, are all Americans so naive? Gee, I don't know. Are you? Have you ever heard of flat rate service? Guess not. -Clint