On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, David Laight wrote:

> The thing to remember is that (traditionally) local phone calls in
> the uk are not 'free'.  So you would pay about 1p (or $0.01) per
> minute for a connection.  If you are willing to pay that you can
> stay online for as lomg as you want....

Yes, that's exactly what I do. I'll admit it gets costly quickly. ;-)
 
> In the last couple of years some ISPs have introduced a service
> where you pay a fixed amount that includes call charges.

Ah well, that's a different story then. In .se, it seems ISPs
just refuse to speak of flat rate dialup.

I've never heard of people getting disconnected before though.
I guess Swedish ISPs just have less subscriber/modem so contention
ratio never became a big problem (apart from the occasional busy tone).

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/ali
:wq