Re: Cost of net access/Free local calls WAS Re: ArgoNet

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From: Thomas Hawtin
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 00:00

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In message <19950915.202911.58@swmiller.demon.co.uk> Simon Miller wrote:

> In message <9509150837.aa10889@post.demon.co.uk> Iain wrote:

> They must either have a heck of a lot of modems, or they must have some
> other means of discouraging people from staying on-line permanently.

The obvious solution would be for Demon to charge for _scarce_ resourses.
This would probably mean connect time and international IP bandwidth
from 6pm to 11pm-ish. They would gain no real benefit from charging
outside of this peak time. I would guess that a modem+line costs DemonIS
around 30p per day. So with demon remaining the nice guys, we might have
to pay, as an *upper bound*, 1p/10mins for peak connectivity. As I'm
paying national BT rates for the next six weeks, there's no complaining
from me!

Tackline
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Thomas Hawtin (Tackline)                               This statement is true.
Maths graduate seeks employment...               tackline@tackline.demon.co.uk

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From: tackline@tackline.demon.co.uk (Thomas Hawtin)
Subject: Re: Cost of net access/Free local calls WAS Re: ArgoNet
Date: 1995/09/16
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