Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site gould9.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!gould9!joel From: joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West) Newsgroups: net.news,net.mail Subject: Long-distance rates for feeds Message-ID: <174@gould9.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 14:29:33 EST Article-I.D.: gould9.174 Posted: Sat Nov 2 14:29:33 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 09:20:43 EST Distribution: na Organization: CACI, Inc. -- La Jolla, Calif. Lines: 33 Keywords: AT&T (Communications) reams us again Xref: watmath net.news:4238 net.mail:1294 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 {cbosgd,ihnp4,pyramid,sdcsvax,ucla-cs} !gould9!joel {sun!suntan,decvax!sdcsvax} gould9!joel@nosc.ARPA