Well, there is no real cost involved in long distance that ever
justified making people pay for it on a time-scale. A.) the public
paid for most of the infrastructure and B.) the switching equipment
that your calls are routed through would be in place regardless of
whether long-distance service even existed.
I never understood why third party phone companies never came along
and offered fixed rates on long distance calling.
Jason
You're assuming that a number of people don't already spend hours a day on
long distance. Obviously, you never met my sister... ;-)
SB
PS - Besides, it's a given that if you remove the price barrier to high
usage of a product or service, such will occur, so they'd expect it. Simply
look at the demand price elasticity curve for just about anything!
I know the 5 mile limit was repealed in N2003, but exactly how long a
track could you design now (i.e. are there other limits-hardware, software,
and otherwise)?
JD
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GPL had a limit...I greater 14 miles...but less than 33. Somewhere in
that window, I can't remember the exact length. SO I would assume that
N2k3 shares a similar limitation.
Perhaps Eric could add more.
dave henrie
