rissa@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Patricia O Tuama) (12/31/88)
o Cap on Free Usage. Your $30 per month will now pay for up
to 30 monthly hours of non-prime time usage. Using the full
30 hours in one month amounts to an hourly rate of only
$1.00 -- more than 85% less than you would pay with the most
popular long distance discount service. Only a small
fraction of you will even be affected by this cap.
what is this cap on "free" usage business? when has pcp ever
been free?
does anyone have any idea what this small fraction of users who
use > 30 hours/month is?
o Over Cap Rate. Non-prime time usage, above the 30 hour cap,
will be billed at $4.50 per hour, which is about half of the
next lowest rate in the market place.
or i suppose you could just sign up for more than one account
and get 60 hours for $60 instead of 60 hours for $165 or 90
hours for $90 instead of 90 hours for $300
o Second Tier Rates. There will be a second level of rates
for those who use the service at business levels. When your
total monthly usage exceeds 60 hours, both prime time and
non-prime time rates will increase for those hours in excess
of 60, as follows:
i heard at&t was getting ready to come out with a service similar
to pcp -- does anyone know anything about this?
trishatadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) (01/01/89)
Does this sound familiar:
"Write a letter to your congressman and each member on the FCC..."
How soon we forget. It was because of our letter writing that the FCC
decided to not lay tariffs on enhanced service providers, such as PC
Pursuit. If the FCC had gone through with their plans, it would have
almost certainly spelled an end to PC Pursuit as we know it.
Now PC Pursuit is raising their rates. My PC Pursuit account is used
to allow us UUCP contact to several "well-known" sites on a daily
basis. Until we got on the Internet, our newsfeeds were over PC
Pursuit as well. I can now wire our calling time to keep it below 30
hours a month, but how long will it remain at 30 hours? What's next?
Do I sound a little bitter? This strikes me as a case of PC Pursuit
biting the hand that feeds them. I realize that no business can
afford to show appreciation for something like the FCC letter writing
campaign, but perhaps they could have been a little more subtle, or
had waited a little longer. To me, this is a slap in the face.
If it were $30 a month flat, I'd have no complaint and would be happy
to pay it. PC Pursuit is well worth $30 a month. However, making the
billing no longer flat after 30 hours goes against what I found most
attractive in PC Pursuit. The loss of flat billing and higher rates
(although it would have been much more severe) would have occurred had
the FCC had their way. Either way...
...tad
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Tad Guy <tadguy@cs.odu.edu> Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
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