John Hudson wrote:
>I think it more accurate to say that unlike in Canada and the US, local
>phone calls are billed per unit of time. ISP's might charge a flat rate per
>month for a specified or unlimited number of hours but the as the dial up
>is a local phone call the phone company is billing the telephone subscriber
>for using the telephone line. This is certainly the case in the UK.
>
Yes, in the UK there's a phone charge per minute of access and it's around
four times as expensive to phone between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on weekdays as it
is at weekends or evenings. Fortunately there has been a decrease in the
cost of going online as many ISPs, including Virgin Net, the one I use, are
providing a free access option where the monthly charge is dropped, in
exchange for a high charge per minute for ringing their help line, which is
probably as good as help lines can be in my experience.
Regards,
Keith Berry (Birmingham, England)
keith_r.k.berry@xxxxxxxxxx
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