cmylod@oracle.nl (Colum Mylod) (02/25/91)
As the original article mentioning changes in Telecom Eireann charges
has expired here, this is not the customary followup. That article did
say that local calls were going from untimed to three minutes. Well,
another source confirms the change but not the details. From the
e-mailed news letter "The Irish Emigrant" dated 25 Feb. 1991 comes
this:
On Friday [ 22 Feb. ] Telecom [Eireann] confirmed that it was
going to end the practice of charging a flat rate for local
calls, irrespective of duration. Between the hours of 8:00
and 18:00 each five minutes will cost one charge unit. For
the remainder of the day a charge unit will buy a fifteen
minute call. On the plus side the charge unit will come down
from 11.17p to 10p. I am not sure when this will come into
effect and I believe it needs Government approval.
The "I" is the editor, one Liam Ferrie and this worthwhile news
service is available by requesting same to irish-net-request@cs.
cornell.edu (end of plug). Source is "Irish Times" and RTE teletext.
So now the story is local calls timed to *five* minutes.
Colum Mylod cmylod@oracle.nl The Netherlands Above is IMHO