From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Dec 22 23:36:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA10241 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 23:36:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www.inx.de (www.inx.de [195.21.255.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA10219 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 23:35:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jnickelsen@acm.org) Received: by www.inx.de (Smail3.2.0.96inx) from [195.21.245.118] (195.21.245.118) with esmtp id ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 08:35:51 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: jn@berlin.snafu.de Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <367ED766.C2941435@uk.radan.com> References: <4.1.19981221111410.06cbb650@mail.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 22:34:41 +0100 To: Mark Ovens From: Juergen Nickelsen Subject: Re: Phone rates Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 0:19 +0100 22.12.1998, Mark Ovens wrote on freebsd-chat: >Part of the problem is that BT still own all the major inter-city >trunks, so even if you use Mercury making a call from, say, London to >Manchester still has to use BT lines, which Mercury has to pay for. In Germany, the german railway and the power companies (also monopolies in their area) have thrown in a handful of fibers into every hole they have been digging for the last several years. When the telecommunications monoply of the Deutsche Telekom fell, their daughter companies had their networks ready. They are offering leased lines as well as long distance calls and are actively competing with the Deutsche Telekom, who had to lower their long-distance rates significantly. As mentioned before, this had no influence on the rates for local calls. Some years ago, the Deutsche Telekom even increased the local call rates by about 100 percent(*) to prepare for the upcoming competition for long-distance calls. (*) From 0.23 DEM (0.144 US$) per 6 minute "unit" to 0.12 DEM (0.075 US$) per 1.5 minute "unit" in the daytime. Greetings, Juergen. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.5.3i for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBNoAQVfxneYZkCUPbEQJmbgCfU6QZ0Pv7qGYdDVdQQCONfT9jtX4AoPjG BkYUxYQ6LiEmsbZpQWET3mNW =zH5W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message