| christophe barbé on Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:40:17 +0100 |
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:03:50AM -0500, Mike Leone wrote: > > > It's generally about $15-25USD per month. $20 is an exceedingly average > > > price. Some providers charge a couple dollars more. Others will charge > > > a little less if you pay for several months in advance. If you get a > > > second phone line, you can expect to pay around $20/month for that as > > > well. > > > > Is the call included in the 20$ cost? > > In france we have to pay the line for data access and for voice > > access (even local call) and we also need to give money to the ISP. > > The $20 is a monthly ISP charge, for unlimited usage. The charge from the > telephone company (Verizon, aka Bell Atlantic) for a phone line is > approximately $20 a month; you can sign up for what's known as unlimited > local calling, which is no extra, metered-charges per phone call, within a > "local" area. (Verizon can tell you is your ISP will be a local call for > you, once you actually get a phone line to call from). > > Example: I had a $20 a month unlimited ISP charge from Plantagenet > (http://www.pil.net); I had a 2nd phone line, with unlimited local calling > (any calls within the city of Philadelphia) for $25 a month. Total was $45 > for unlimited 56K dialup; I now pay a total of $50 for an unlimited 640K DSL > line. 1200% increase in speed; 11% higher cost. > > Go broadband if you can. :-) Thank you for this concrete example. If I understand correctly you compute like a salesmen. I imagine you keep a phone line for which you certainly pay monthly fee to verizon (perhaps 15$) so you changed from a 56k dialup for 45$ to a high speed connection + one phone line for 65$. But you nearly convinced me. I will look to high speed offers more closely. One of my big concern was the one year clause but it looks like most of you have not signed for a year. > > > Netaxs seems to be the more often mentioned. > > NetAxs is the largest local ISP, and the 2nd largest in the area (Voicenet > is larger, but they're closer to being a natinal ISP than NetAxs). > > Christophe > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug > -- Christophe Barbé <christophe.barbe@ufies.org> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E Attachment:
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