bam@rutgers.edu@unimail-pcp.UUCP (02/12/87)
--------Forwarded Message-------- 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