Hello Jerry,

 SH>>> from one which was POTS based and expensive (you would not
 SH>>> have liked to pay my long distance bills before I found an
 SH>>> Internet feed for my net's echomail) to one which is
 SH>>> efficuent and relatively cheap is evolution.

 MvdV>> Hmmm, it appears to me that he relatively cheap is only true
 MvdV>> because of the exorbitant charges you have to pay in your part of
 MvdV>> the world for long distance calls.

 JS> Our long-distance calls are relatively cheap, now;

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

 JS> the real difference is that you pay by the minute for local
 JS> calls, whereas in most of North America that isn't true.

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

Cheers, Michiel

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