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

["Jonathan Byrne--3Web" <jq@example.com>]

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差出人 : Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>


>On Wed, 6 May 1998, Jonathan Byrne wrote:


>> 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.

Jonathan