Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555) wrote to Jerry Schwartz at 13:47 on 16 Dec 2002:

 MvdV> Then Steven has mislead me in this aspect too. He mentioned
 MvdV> amounts of hundreds of dolars a monthe and neglected to mentions
 MvdV> that those applied to the past, not to the present.

I never said it was still true but calls to the U.S. still cost 25 cents
per minute and calls to Canada are still 10 cents per minute.  It's not a
happy state. 

 MvdV> But of course local calls aren't "free". You just pay for them in
 MvdV> another way that we do.

I'll do more detailed math in another post but my basic telephone service
costs me $47.14 euro ($CAN29.65) per month.  After that, all local calls or
free including voice calls, ISP calls, or Fidonet data calls.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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