On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, David Laight wrote:

> > 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).
> 
> That is probably because they get a cut of the phone call charge.

Ah, well the telephone company usually is the ISP as well, so I think
in most cases, they simply get everything.

> With fixed price connections they need to have a moderate
> number of users per possible connection in order to make money.

Yes, if it's flat rate it's quite different. I think I'd still rather
pay more and not get interrupted every 2h though. :-)

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/ali
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