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 {cbosgd,ihnp4,pyramid,sdcsvax,ucla-cs} !gould9!joel {sun!suntan,decvax!sdcsvax} gould9!joel@nosc.ARPA
phil@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. -- The number of California lottery tickets sold is greater than the number of people in the United States of America. Phil Ngai +1 408 749-5720 UUCP: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra}!amdcad!phil ARPA: amdcad!phil@decwrl.dec.com