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In message <19950915.060052.73@swmiller.demon.co.uk> Simon Miller wrote:

> In message <19950914.194957.93@findon.demon.co.uk> Mark Smith wrote:
> 
> > > > True.  And free local calls won't help from what I hear.
> > > 
> > > What? Do go on...
> > 
> > You can't possibly have a situation where you have free phone calls and the
> > ISP providing a fixed rate service without a ridiculous subscriber:modem
> > ratio as people will probably remain connected all the time they are sitting
> > at their computer.
> 
> True, not on Demon's current service because as it stands, that ratio is too
> high even for our expensive phone calls...however, local phone calls are free
> in many parts the USA and still many providers simply charge a flat rate.
> Some of them get around the problem by imposing a time limit on calls, but
> others seem to manage without. Perhaps Demon might consider imposing a time
> limit on standard dial-up but not on network-reserved dial-up? Alternatively
> they could impose a small fee per unit time (hopefully not as much as BT's
> though!) and there are countless other possibilities.
> 
> Can anybody who actually knows something about this, suggest which option
> British service providers are likely to take?
> 

A *monthly* time limit - rather than a session time limit - that equates to
about an hour a day but because it�s over a period of time allows for
occasional marathon surfs on time saved by daily mail & news exchanges that
last only minutes or don�t take place at all.

If you want or must go over the monthly time limit, you can, but you start
paying.

That sounds reasonable. At least until the perennial bandwidth problems are
solved.

-- 
Peter Greenham