[BC] strange Long Distance charges

[Larry Bloomfield <Larry@Tech-Notes.TV>]

Bill:

Not sure where you are now, but the telephone service I have in Oregon is 
quite reasonable. Quest charges $20/month, flat rate, for unlimited long 
distance. You do have to have some of their feature on your line to get it 
for that, but that's a lot better than the 1.3 cents I was pay before. My 
bills ran a much as $200 - $300 a month. It's not cheep calling all over 
the US on that other system. The new rates are much better.  If my crystal 
ball is working, I believe you'll see things get even less expensive as 
calling via the Internet becomes even more popular and the competition gets 
hotter.

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Larry Bloomfield, KA6UTC

"Bill Sepmeier" <dcpowerandlight at hotmail.com> wrote:

>>    My biggest gripe to the baby bells is why can I call California for 3 
>> cents a minute, and yet to call relatives 70 miles away it is 18 cents a 
>> minute?
>
>Tom - when I was living in Perth, Australia last year I could call my kids 
>in the States, 15 time zones and 12000 miles away across the Pacific for 
>... get this, 1.7 cents a minute.  Now that I'm back within 200 miles of 
>the little buggers, it's 7 cents a minute!