Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555) wrote to Steven Horn at 17:05 on 20 Dec 2002:

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

 MvdV> Hmmm,.. you pay three times as much per month for the basic
 MvdV> service as I do.

Michiel, I blew the conversion.  My telephone line which costs me $29.65
Canadian would cost me $18.62 in Euros. 

 MvdV> What it boils down to is that you pay some EUR 30,- a month for
 MvdV> your local calls. That is an interesting definition of "free".
 MvdV> ;-)

Since in fact I only pay EUR $18.62 for my telephone access and pay nothing
for local calls in addition to that, I do rather well.

 MvdV> The bottom line on my telephone bill for last month was just
 MvdV> under EUR 44. That includes ALL calls.

Don't think you do that well. For EUR 61.88, I get my telephone connection,
no local call charges and ADSL.  I do have to pay for long distance calls
on top of that but they are now cheap as borscht.

Take care,

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