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From: crs@beta.lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby)
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 22:44:34 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos Natn'l Laboratory
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Message-ID: <3igeoj$rf6@newshost.lanl.gov>
References: <D3s19v.4M7@pe1chl.ampr.org> <root.793371940@c00037-5pa.eos.ncsu.edu> <D4DH09.BAo@pe1chl.ampr.org> <3ig1dn$6l5@nntp1.u.washington.edu>
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In article <3ig1dn$6l5@nntp1.u.washington.edu>,
= >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.

I think the point was that if you and your phone company's other
customers were to significantly increase use of the service, rates
would go up--for everyone.


-- 
Best,

Charlie "Older than dirt" Sorsby				"I'm the NRA!"
	  crs@lanl.gov