On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, chris wrote:
> >Pay by the minute for connection time? You're getting screwed.
>
> Maybe they are, but from what I gather, that is not unusual outside the
> USA.
>
> Even here in the USA, if you are on a dialup connection, and calling from
> a business... guess what, you are probably paying by the minute. Most
> business lines in the USA are billed per minute of connect time (or
> worse, by the "message unit").
>
> -chris
> <http://www.mythtech.net>
>
>
Before we got DSL at work (we're about 17K feet from the CO) we had to get by
with a Dialup. Good old PacBell charged us about a penny a minute... DSL _at_
$99.00 a month is actually cheaper...
Peter Wallace
Received on Wed Jan 22 2003 - 13:56:00 GMT