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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
Microwave or no (just used as an example of the infrastructure telephone companies use), the fact is someone had to build and pay for the infrastructure needed to connect phone calls at great distances, and long distance fees are there means of recouping those costs.
Just becasue it is a digital network doesn't really change that fact.
Wires, fiber optic cables, microwave towers, sattelites, they all cost money so someon's gotta pay.
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I guess I'm of the opinion that they aren't paying for the installation of that network anymore though. And in the case of say 1000km it wouldn't be any different than a local call. Still using all the same parts of the network, but you have to pay for it.