Hello Bob
> I've been watching these discussions about RHA and other ISP's with a
> minor degree of interest. I gather that membership on this list is pretty
> heavy weighted to the UK.
It is the quiet retiring stiff upper lip which makes it seem that way!
>As a guess, I'd say that at least 80% of Americans
> have never paid for a metered local phone call.
Even using a "call up, grab, log off" technique massive phone bills were
inevitable. For people who have not moved onto these new services, there is
a minimum charge of 5p, 7-8 cents even for failed connections or to pick up
one email!
>(BTW, she just sacked AOL due to many of the same complaints I
> see on this list. Line drops, busted downloads, etc.)
The issue is slightly different, redhotant is the new child of a free (as in
no subscription) ISP. They are limiting themselves to 75k users, so are
pretty small and are having teething troubles. NTL are a large company (the
winners in the UK cable industry consolidtaion battle). They are quoted on,
I think, Nasdaq and Microsoft have a large shareholding :)
Most of the free ISP's have various strings attached to the offer.
Just to fill you in on the "backstory"!
> My sister on the
> other hand lives so far out in the sticks that she got a satellite modem
> after I nearly crashed the whole exchange sending her a modest sized JPEG.
Cool, those are coming out in the UK sometime, but a phone connection is
needed for uploads.
> I don't care much for scanning posts that are
> simply gripe sessions to discover if there is a nugget of useful
> information.
>
> I thing there is a middle ground in this that we can all benefit from.
Let's all sit on the fence and drink beer together like in a virtual King of
the Hill. Yep.
John
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