joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West) (11/02/85)
For the purposes of going through SYSLOG and estimating the
cost of various mail/news links, I called up the phone company
to find the rates calling from San Diego. The results suprised me.
Here are the raw numbers for each of three time periods; for
a split rate, the 2nd number is after the 1st minute
delmar 17 12 7 (about 10 miles away)
la 42/27 35/21 23/14 (100 miles, in-state)
bayarea 57/34 42/26 28/17 (450 miles, in-state)
step7 55/38 33/23 22/16 (colorado)
step9 65/42 39/26 26/17 (anything west of Mississipi)
What shocked me was:
* colorado is cheaper than San Jose, though it's farther.
* the cost difference for 10 miles vs. 3,000 is a factor of 2,
approx the difference between compressing and not compressing news.
* the difference between calling California or the East Coast
is little or nothing.
I guess this says it really is better to go
sdcsvax!ihnp4!hplabs
than
sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!ucbvax!hplabs
It also makes Stargate (remember that?) look a lot more attractive.
Joel West CACI, Inc. Federal
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gould9!joel@nosc.ARPAphil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) (11/05/85)
Don't blame ATT for the high cost of intrastate calls. Your RBOC handles
those. I suppose ATT could make the RBOCs look better by raising their
long-distance rates but I'm sure that's not what you want.
--
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the number of people in the United States of America.
Phil Ngai +1 408 749-5720
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