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From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.general
Subject: Re: Usenet topology suboptimal - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 26-Feb-84 04:03:11 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 26 04:03:11 1984
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fortune!rpw3    Feb 25 21:25:00 1984

Look again at the phone charges listed in the front of your phone book.
For inTERstate calls over about 200 miles, rates are nearly flat across the
entire continental US ("contiguous 48"). We should indeed be optimizing number
of hops, but NOT particularly distance (outside of the "local calling area").
The inTRAstate rates are not much lower.

Late-night/weekend rates for each minute after the first from Palo Alto to:

	Berkeley, CA		$0.08
	Sacramento, CA		$0.14
	Reno, NV		$0.16
	Santa Barbara, CA	$0.18
	San Diego, CA		$0.18
	Denver, CO		$0.18
	Chicago, IL		$0.18
	Dallas,TX		$0.18
	Portland, ME		$0.20
	New York, NY		$0.20
	Atlanta, GA		$0.20
	Miami, FL		$0.20

Rob Warnock

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