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Originally Posted by kermitology
In terms of voice communications, we're getting hosed as consumers. The bandwidth requirements are tiny compared to something like IP traffic by us logging on to CP to argue about telecommunications things.
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It almost feels like a tax on a tax when you're paying per minute and long distance.
(I'm done with you, BBS, so please don't reply to this) When you think about the way the telecom industry was originally set up, it was based on land lines and distance. There was no 'per minute' charges. You paid for your monthly service and paid extra to call long distance. Back in the day, that was necessary because a) there were physical wires that needed to be maintained and b) there was no internet to conduct long distance business over.
It just seems to me that the world got alot smaller in the last 20 years. Doing business between Calgary and Edmonton is so common, it doesn't even register on the 'how big is your company' scale.
It's totally bogus that it costs the phone company any more to connect a call between the two cities. If it did, there'd be no such thing as the stupid packages we pay for for long distance. It's just another way to hose us.