Fixed price Internet phone charges announced by BT :)

[Mark Ovens]

On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 10:58:56AM -0000, Wood, Richard wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Smith [mailto:rsmith at trltech.co.uk]
> > Sent: 11 November 1999 10:30
> 
> > Not quite.
> > 
> > Based on 14 people sharing access to a single port, BT will charge the
> > ISP 10 UKP per month.
> 
> Thats 10 UKP per user per month.
> 
> A port will cost 140UKP, BT suggest that this port will support 14 users.
> That 140UKP provides an average 8 hours usage per day (probably 244 hours
> per month), with extra usage being charged at "less than 1p per minute".
> 
> The 30 days of 8 hours at 140 UKP works out at a cost of 1p per minute for
> the included time.
> 

You're right. I nevered bothered doing the maths. Guess I was too excited by

	"which might include unlimited dial-up calls to the Internet
	for a single monthly fee."

> Allowing for ISP's overheads and a sensible contention ratio, it doesn't
> actually work out that cheap.
> 
> There is also a minimum provision of 10,000 ports.
> 

Where does it say that?

> Rich
> 
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