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From: joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.mail
Subject: Long-distance rates for feeds
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Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 14:29:33 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  2 14:29:33 1985
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Organization: CACI, Inc. -- La Jolla, Calif.
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Keywords: AT&T (Communications) reams us again
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For the purposes of going through SYSLOG and estimating the
cost of various mail/news links, I called up the phone company
to find the rates calling from San Diego.  The results suprised me.

Here are the raw numbers for each of three time periods; for 
a split rate, the 2nd number is after the 1st minute

    delmar	17 12 7			(about 10 miles away)
    la		42/27 35/21 23/14	(100 miles, in-state)
    bayarea	57/34 42/26 28/17	(450 miles, in-state)
    step7	55/38 33/23 22/16	(colorado)
    step9	65/42 39/26 26/17	(anything west of Mississipi)

What shocked me was:
   * colorado is cheaper than San Jose, though it's farther.

   * the cost difference for 10 miles vs. 3,000 is a factor of 2,
     approx the difference between compressing and not compressing news.

   * the difference between calling California or the East Coast
     is little or nothing.

I guess this says it really is better to go
	sdcsvax!ihnp4!hplabs
than
	sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!ucbvax!hplabs

It also makes Stargate (remember that?) look a lot more attractive.

	Joel West	 CACI, Inc. Federal
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