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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (9186)	11/19/2000 4:38:45 PM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

"Do you happen to have any more vitals on how the cafe works? Pricing, services offered, etc?" Frank- Just so happens I do. It's below. Interesting idea you mention about a home connection driving users to the cafe. You could be correct. I suppose that is why I was there as much as I didn't want to be.<g> -MikeM(From Florida) ___________________ From the company(I don't have a url. I got this off the Citrix thread): 1. Customer buys Internet access credit from the front counter. One dollar buys from 15 minutes to 6 hours of logon time, depending on the time of day and the number of people currently logged on at the cafe. 2. The customer then logs onto a terminal in the cafe. A banner running along the bottom of the screen shows the current in-store price and how much credit the customer has left. 3. The customer pays about $2 per session to use Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Works Suite 2001 or Microsoft Encarta 2001. 4. Black and white printing costs about 35 cents per page, and color costs about 70 cents.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (9186)	11/20/2000 7:59:08 PM
From: geoffrey Wren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Internet connections in Lima, Peru. I just happened to be down there, and there are many places that have accessibility to the internet. Anywhere from 2-4 Soles per hour ($.60-$1.20). the one I used was quite slow, but workable. I saw one place that claimed that they connected at 96,000. They have these facilities all over. Yet many had no or little business. Looks overbuilt from what I could see. The country's hurting economically now. As an aside, their cell phone networks seemed as advanced as what we have here.