Here in the USA, we are starting to see Long Distance calling plans that
mimic the cell phone pricing with a fixed price for both local and long
distance. I was thinking today..(shaddup!) I wondered how long it would
take the phone company to discontinue the program if something like Hawaii
was still available... :)
dave henrie
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 03:05:19 GMT, Dave Henrie <[email hidden]>
wrote:
> Here in the USA, we are starting to see Long Distance calling plans that
>mimic the cell phone pricing with a fixed price for both local and long
>distance. I was thinking today..(shaddup!) I wondered how long it would
>take the phone company to discontinue the program if something like Hawaii
>was still available... :)
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
Odds are they would continue the program, but reduce the line quality until
it became unusable for racing.
"Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...
> Here in the USA, we are starting to see Long Distance calling plans that
> mimic the cell phone pricing with a fixed price for both local and long
> distance. I was thinking today..(shaddup!) I wondered how long it would
> take the phone company to discontinue the program if something like Hawaii
> was still available... :)
> dave henrie
"Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...
> Here in the USA, we are starting to see Long Distance calling plans that
> mimic the cell phone pricing with a fixed price for both local and long
> distance. I was thinking today..(shaddup!) I wondered how long it would
> take the phone company to discontinue the program if something like Hawaii
> was still available... :)
> dave henrie
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!
Dave Henrie wrote:
> Here in the USA, we are starting to see Long Distance calling plans that
> mimic the cell phone pricing with a fixed price for both local and long
> distance. I was thinking today..(shaddup!) I wondered how long it would
> take the phone company to discontinue the program if something like Hawaii
> was still available... :)
> dave henrie
[getting back on-topic]
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
