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Non-Tech : Proposed $.10 per Minute Internet Charge
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To: Roger A. Babb who wrote (89)2/11/1997 6:28:00 AM
From: Tom Simpson   of 112
 
Well Roger, it does seem odd that the notion of charging based on usage basis should engender the emotional storm running through this thread. Its not an unreasonable mechanism for distributing costs. The reasonable issues are what costs should be thus distributed and at what rate. I've no doubt that the telcos (PacBell in my case) will unscrupulously attempt to throw everything they can conceive of into that pot; yachts, party girls, junkets to COMDEX, you name it. Thats what rate hearings are supposed to filter, and sometimes do. Looking at the impact of Internet connections on local loop capacity at the margin my uneducated guess would be that we are actually talking not about pennies per minute but mils.

I am interested in your ISDN story. $.02/min works out to $28.80/day (24hrs) and about 28 days worth gets you to the $800. Even my daughters don't camp on the line that long! They should be able to cut two thirds out of their $800 bill by just hanging up before they go home for the night.

As I understand it from PacBell here, ISDN calls originating and terminating within the same POP escape per minute charges. I am blessed with the good fortune of having the same 3 digit prefix as my ISP who charges $25 a month for either ISDN or analog access (150 hour/month loose limit). Unfortunately, I have not yet been able to prod PacBell into actually converting one of my lines to ISDN. The remark by someone within this thread about telcos being "slugs" is very well founded.

Regards.....Tom
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