On Fri, 4 May 2007 18:23:31 +0100 The Medway Handyman wrote :
I've always wondered how come long distance telephone calls cost the
consumer more than local calls?

In that case it was probably a case of using price to keep down demand.
ISTR hearing stories of villages that only had a couple of lines linking
them with the outside world.

Similar thing about having cheaper calls after 1pm and cheaper again in
the evening, cheap cross-Channel trips at unsocial times, discounted
theatre tickets earlier in the week: make more money off your existing
infrastructure rather than expand it to meet peak demand and see it even
more under-utilised at other times.

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Tony Bryer SDA UK 'Software to build on' http://www.sda.co.uk