On April 25, 2004 at 17:45 mouse(_at_)Rodents(_dot_)Montreal(_dot_)QC(_dot_)CA
(der Mouse) wrote:
Electricity too cheap to meter!
GE used to use that slogan, in the 1960's, to sell the idea of
nuclear power plants.
It's always suspect, tho not a priori false, and certainly suspect
here, for the very reason we're here; it becomes abused.
I know someone who has phone service with, effectively, a
continent-wide local calling area. (That is, one flat fee per month
(USD 40.00 is what I recall) covers all calls within North America.)
I gather it's new and thus relatively experimental, but people don't do
such things unless they have reason to think they will succeed
commercially.
Where, in this particular case, success may be measured in gaining
enough market-share by driving your competition into bankruptcy that
you can then charge whatever you like.
Ask them for a 10 year or 25 year guarantee on flat-rate service, even
w/o any pricing guarantee and tell us how they answer.
Well, ok, unfair question because you'd never get an answer for other
reasons of course.
But I think you get my point: This very new pricing regimen from long
distance carriers may not be indicative of anything other than a
frothy marketplace.
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