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PC pursuit changes.

#680
From: bam
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1987 05:17
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  Message-ID: #709.unimail.pcp.pcp/information 23 lines, 1099 chars.
  From: doug (Doug Azzarito, Palm Beach Gardens, FL)  Tue, 10 Feb 87 21:48:59 PST
  Subject: San Francisco Blues
  
  This has been a long time coming, and I didn't want to mention it until
  it was for certain.....
  
  The 415 dialing area is KILLING PC-Pursuit.  Pac Bell (a.k.a. ringing rip-off)
  charges TOO much for message units in that city.  When Telenet got the bill
  for our 415 calls, it was too much.  A study was done, and found that 10%
  of the traffic was accounting for almost all the phone charges.  So, if PC-P
  was to be saved, the following 415 exchanges had to be shut down:
  
     229  322  327  365  370  471  481  484  489  581  591  651  659
   
     672  689  790  791  792  793  794  795  797  829  837  937  939
   
     948  949  961  965
  
  This hurts most of us, but it can not be avoided.  Don't yell at Telenet, yell
  at Pac Bell - they are the ones with the crazy message unit charges!  I'm just
  glad I live where the bell company still uses flat rates!  Thank you, 
  Southern Bell!!!
  

Look on the bright side - 415 won't be nearly so hard to connect to any
more!!!

doug

unimail-pcp!doug@bigbang.cts.com
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Subject: PC pursuit changes.
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