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To: pat mudge who wrote (7217)	11/2/1998 7:14:00 AM
From: Glenn McDougall	Read Replies (1) of 18016

InterNet surfers stage strike in Germany Cyber rage Reuters Thousands of Internet addicts in Germany vowed to stay offline for 24 hours yesterday to protest what they say are exorbitant online access costs from Deutsche Telekom AG. This comes less than a week after the former monopoly vowed to slash long-distance rates to stem customer defections to upstarts like Mobilcom AG. Their aim is to deprive Telekom of fees they say could total several million marks for the local telephone calls that most users have to use to access cyberspace. "We want a fair adjustment of the prices for Internet connections and to allow affordable access for the masses and for students," an online club called DarkBreed said. The group demands Telekom lower the cost of an hour of time on its T-Online service to one mark from about five marks ($4.70 Cdn), a rate well above the cost in North America. It also wants Telekom to cap fees at 100 marks a month, regardless of how much time users spend online. With 2.5-million users, T-Online is Germany's largest online service. If Telekom doesn't respond, DarkBreed plans to hold more Sunday boycotts with the support of 6,000 Web sites and 12,000 users.

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