Re: ISDN rate increases from Bellsouth

Dan Geiger (dang@livingston.com)
Wed, 23 Oct 1996 09:09:17 -0700

At 11:52 AM 10/23/96 -0400, Charles Scott wrote:
>
>
>Derric:
> Well, those prices are kind of high. I think we're currently around
>$33 to $35 per month for both business and residential. We have a number
>of people signing up for 24 hour connections vial ISDN, particularly
>schools. Something like $440/month for the line would be more than a
>dedicated full T-1 to most of them.
>
>Chuck
>
>
>On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, DT Scott wrote:
>
>>
>> BellSouth is currently flat-rate ISDN, period (here in AL - business
>> about $93.50/month and residential about $69/month). I understand
>> they are planning to introduce timed usage only, allowing 200 hours (AT A
>> PRICE DECREASE).

If it will be less than $93.50 for 200 hours of usage, that's a pretty
aggressive pricing scheme. That should cover a typical business or school
running 50 hours per week (and since ISDN is dial-up, the lines would
probably not be up full time during typical business hours...). Under .50
per hour for 128K "aint to shabby"...
Dan

Over 200 hours it is $.01/minute I think. Ie. they
>> are deliberately targeting the full-time users. The $430 is what
>> I assume a whole month would be, calculating the timed access.
>>
>> The sugar is that it is a PRICE DECREASE for all "legitimate" ISDN users.
>>
>> Derric
>>
>> > On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Alex wrote:
>> >
>> > > >Bellsouth recently announced ISDN rate increases for all states they
cover,
>> > > >except Tennessee. The new rate increases would move nailed down
connections
>> > > >from around $90/month to around $430/month.
>> >
>> > What are we talking about here with "nailed down" connections? Are
>> > they charging different for lines which are used 24 hours/day as opposed
>> > to ones which are only used a few hours/day?
>> >
>> > Chuck
>>
>>
>
>

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