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Re: Timed local calls for Internet users...

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From: Kim Richardson
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 00:00
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As if charged local calls wasn't enuff! In the U.S their local calls are
free and its only trunk calls that are charged for ...

Telco's in general aren't into "Advancing Australia" or any of that
stuff ... they're just in it for the money ... just look at all the
protocols that were designed/changed to accomodate "charging"
information interchange ...

Charging for communications is fair enuff but this new proposal for
timed calls sucks major ... timed call cost on TOP of ISP rates ... NO
THANKS

<No Good Sig yet ... too lazy :)>

Kim Richardson
Computer Science
Curtin University Of Technology
Perth , W.A
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From: Kim Richardson <richards@cs.curtin.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Timed local calls for Internet users...
Date: 1996/08/13
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