[11833] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US Domestic line costs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Dixon)
Thu Aug 14 17:19:56 1997
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 22:11:02 +0100 (BST)
From: Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net>
To: Josh Beck <jbeck@connectnet.com>
cc: Adrian Bool <aid@u-net.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95q+pgcc+pgp.970814140424.1161E-100000@brap.connectnet.com>
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Josh Beck wrote:
> > God, that is a massive difference to nancy's formula!!! Nancy's cals
> > would give a line cost of around $900 and yours $4350 (going by my
> > Reader's Digest Atlas ;-)))
>
> Well, PacBell does suck. Additionally, I would imagine that after
> X miles line charges change... we only have one PacBell T1 (all others
> MFS). It is San Diego -> Irvine, about 100 miles. I know it isn't $4k,
> but I don't know how much it is... around town, however, that is their
> cost AFAIK, but then again that too could be dated information.
These things do vary all over the place. We used to pay $170 a month
for a T1 in San Jose.
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