RE: NTT prices (was: Using local MTA re: tlug: Naive VM question)

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 6 May 1998, Jonathan Byrne--3Web wrote:

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> 差出人 : Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>
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> >On Wed, 6 May 1998, Jonathan Byrne wrote:
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> >> all.  In the U.S., that's free.  You pay about $50 to have
> >> it connected, but there's no $500 bribe to the phone company
> >> (which is what NTT's "subscription right" really is) to make
> >> them let you have a phone line.
> >
> >It's up to $700 now, according to Naomi at Bricks... however, if you go
> >with Bricks/NTT's ISDN Lite program, you avoid the $700 bribe to NTT
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it's still 72,800 yen, which is
> pretty far from being US$700, but is somewhere in the mid-500s, depending on
> the exchange rate.

OK, well, when I came here, it was 120 yen/dollar, and that comes out to
$606.67, but my wife always divides by 100 anyway, so if it's 72800 yen
she'll say, "That's $700!", and that's the main problem that I have to
deal with, so it might as well be $700 as far as I'm concerned :)

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