Re: BA's new flat rate -- its $249 per month for residents

["Todd J. Paglia" <tpaglia@essential.org>]

  On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Fred R. Goldstein wrote:
  
  > Pricing:
  > 
  > Measured                $23.50
  > 20 Hour Callpack         31.00
  > 60 Hour Callpack         45.00
  > 140 Hour Callpack        60.00
  > 300 Hour Callpack        90.00
  > 500 Hour Callpack       120.00
  > Flat Rate               249.00
  
  	Remember that if you use the service at its full capability, both 
  B channels (128 Kbps), rather than the single B channel (64 Kbps) which 
  Bell Atlantic misleadingly uses as the basis for its rates, it is even 
  more expensive.  Using a single B channel is like buying a new sportscar 
  and deciding that despite what you have spent (for ISDN we are talking 
  about the service plus the costly hardware/software) you will run on 4 
  rather than 8 cylinders.  So if you choose to use the full speed of your 
  ISDN connection (both B channels at 128 Kbps), as most people would, the 
  chart above looks like this:
  
  
  	 Measured                $23.50
  	 10 Hour Callpack         31.00
  	 30 Hour Callpack         45.00
  	 70 Hour Callpack         60.00
  	150 Hour Callpack         90.00
  	250 Hour Callp ack       120.00
  	Flat Rate                249.00
   
  
  	These prices are completely out of line with the cost of 
  providing the service and will do little to encourage broad deployment of 
  ISDN.  Bell Atlantic just doesn't get it.
     
  			Todd
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