Re: [Nolug] Verizon high speed wireless

Or how about 4.75$ for a coke at the movies, 3$ for a 20oz in the machine
when you can get the same thing for < $1.00 else where.

>From: "Dave Prentice" <prentice@instruction.com>
>Reply-To: nolug@nolug.org
>To: <nolug@nolug.org>
>Subject: Re: [Nolug] Verizon high speed wireless
>Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:12:46 -0600
>
>From: Joey Kelly <joey@joeykelly.net>
>Date: Thursday, December 02, 2004 10:17 PM
>Subject: Re: [Nolug] Verizon high speed wireless
><snip>
> >As an aside, rotary phone service is or was marginally cheaper than
>DTMF
> >dialing (there used to be an additional charge for pushbotton
>service), but
> >in reality users requiring or requesting rotary service meant that
>the phone
> >company had to take extra steps per call to interpret the rotary
>clicks and
> >translate them into DTMF tones, at least after their network went
>digital.
> >Rotary was in fact more expensive for them, but they marketed the
>perceived
> >value of convenient pushbutton dialing and charge the customer more
>for what
> >actually cost Bell less to provide.
> >> ray
>
>Hmmm, kind of like 50 cents for a Coke and 75 cents for a bottle of
>water.
>Dave Prentice
>prentice@instruction.com
>http://www.originsresource.org
>
>
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