Hello, Michiel...

Dec 16, 2002 at 13:47, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Jerry Schwartz:

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

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

I don't have a clue what Steven pays. He lives in Canada, not the USA; and
he lives in a place that is more remote than you or I can imagine. (Look it
up on a map.)

Phone bills of hundreds of dollars a month are not that distant a memory to
me, either.

 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.

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

True, but it's a flat rate regardless of the number or duration of calls.
This isn't true in all areas, even in the USA. Some areas have metered
calling, and calls in excess of your contract cost dearly.

Regards,

Jerry Schwartz

mailto:jerryschwartz{at}comfortable.com
http://www.writebynight.com

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