Re: [Asrg] Re: Answering a lot of questions about e-postage in afew sentences

[Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com>]

On April 25, 2004 at 17:45 mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA (der Mouse) wrote:
 > > Electricity too cheap to meter!
 > 
 > > GE used to use that slogan, in the 1960's, to sell the idea of
 > > nuclear power plants.
 > 
 > > It's always suspect, tho not a priori false, and certainly suspect
 > > here, for the very reason we're here; it becomes abused.
 > 
 > I know someone who has phone service with, effectively, a
 > continent-wide local calling area.  (That is, one flat fee per month
 > (USD 40.00 is what I recall) covers all calls within North America.)
 > 
 > I gather it's new and thus relatively experimental, but people don't do
 > such things unless they have reason to think they will succeed
 > commercially.

Where, in this particular case, success may be measured in gaining
enough market-share by driving your competition into bankruptcy that
you can then charge whatever you like.

Ask them for a 10 year or 25 year guarantee on flat-rate service, even
w/o any pricing guarantee and tell us how they answer.

Well, ok, unfair question because you'd never get an answer for other
reasons of course.

But I think you get my point: This very new pricing regimen from long
distance carriers may not be indicative of anything other than a
frothy marketplace.

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