Jamie,
I only have one question: can I get NATCO service in
Philadelphia?
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> INFORMATION POLICY NOTES - ISDN tariffs
> March 8, 1996
>
>
>
> Selected ISDN Tariffs
>
> Draft, Version .91
> March 7, 1996
> James Love, Consumer Project on Technology [1]
> http://www.essential.org/cpt
> love@tap.org / 202/387-8030
>
[snip]
> Company/State 100 hours 2B+D Nailed Down
> (Dollars) (Dollars)
> NATCO
> Arkansas 17.90 17.90
[snip]
> Bell Atlantic
> Delaware 198 1,206.48
> District of Columbia
> Proposed 198 1,206.48
> PSC Staff Recommendation 32 32
> Maryland 198 1,206.48
> New Jersey 198 1,206.48
> Pennsylvania 198 1,206.48
> Virginia 198 1,206.48
> West Virginia 198 1,206.48
[snip]
> Northern Arkansas Telephone Company (NATCO)
>
> Voice: 1-800-775-6682
> http://southshore.k12.ar.us/natco1.html
>
>
> Installation fee $25.20
>
> Fixed Monthly fee $17.90
>
> Usage Charges None.
>
> Cost to Consumer [2]
> 100 Hours of 2B+D $17.90
> Nailed Down Line $17.90
[snip]
> Bell Atlantic
> http://www.ba.com
>
> Basic Bell Atlantic residential ISDN Tariff for Delaware,
> District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
> Virginia and West Virginia.
>
> Installation Fee $125
>
> Fixed Monthly fee $19.50 plus local measured service POTS, for
> an approximate $30 to $34 per month.
>
> Usage Charges Per minute charges apply. Two cents per B
> Channel from 7 am to 7 pm, and one cent per B
> channel from 7 pm to 7 am and on weekends.
>
> Notes: The tariff is designed to discourage use,
> first by charging by the minute, and then by
> basing the charge on the number of B channels
> being used. Consumers who can afford this
> service will have incentives to use the
> service at half its possible speed.
>
> Cost to Consumer [2]
>
> 100 Hours of 2B+D $168 usage plus $30 = $198
>
> Nailed Down Line $1,176.48 usage plus $30 =
> $1,206.48
[snip]
> [1] Thanks to Janice Shields of the Center for Study of
> Responsive Law for research on this topic.
>
>
> [2] The consumer's cost of 100 hours of 2B + D service is based
> upon the following assumptions. The time online is divided
> as follows: from 8 am to 5 pm 30 percent, from 5 pm to 7 pm
> 10 percent, from 7 pm to 11 pm 35 percent and from 11 pm to
> 7 am and weekends, 25 percent. This works out to 30 percent
> peak for the PacBell tariff, or 40 percent peak for the Bell
> Atlantic Tariff. Number of calls is 100. In practice, the
> number of calls will depend upon the pricing incentives, but
> generally this isn't a very large number, companies to the
> cost of the per minute charges.
Ann Davidson
Biddle Law Library
University of Pennsylvania
adavidso@oyez.law.upenn.edu
Opinions expressed are mine, not those of my institution.
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