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- If you're a hacker (UK) who has big phone bills (over 90 pounds a quarter) then you should become a MERCURY subscriber - if your not already that is!
- The benefits are fabulous, all the calls are logged with times - you could work
- out the average cost per minute of calling your favourite bbs!
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- Off-peak (after 6pm and at weekends) charges per minute are roughly half those
- of BT's
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- You can choose whether you pay your bill every month or every 3 months. I have
- found that monthly payments are the easiest to cope with.
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- The staff are much more helpful and professional.
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- MERCURY is the ONLY main competitor to BT at the moment - and I would rather
- pay my money to Mercury than BT!
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- It makes line traces more difficult as MERCURY doesn't like to collude with
- BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (BT). A short background to this attitude comes
- from Mercury's early days when BT gave them loads of hassle. BT is the Main
- phone network in the UK - in about 1984 Mercury began to challenge this stance.
- But BT have to approve (by law) any equipment attached to their network. So any
- of the equipment that Mercury sent to BT to be approved was repeatedly rejected
- for extremely trivial reasons (perhaps something to do with the fact that if you
- had a piece of equipment rejected you had to have it resubmitted along with the
- hefty fee again). Mercury knew what BT were up to and didn't like it a bit!
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- * Off-peak rates! list compiled by Bauderline, 21st April, 1990 *
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- MINUTES COST MINUTES COST MINUTES COST
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- 1 4.1P 21 86.1p 41 168.1p
- 2 8.2p 22 90.2p 42 172.2p
- 3 12.3p 23 94.3p 43 176.3p
- 4 16.4p 24 98.4p 44 180.4p
- 5 20.5p 25 102.5p 45 184.5p
- 6 24.6p 26 106.6p 46 188.6p
- 7 28.7p 27 110.7p 47 192.7p
- 8 32.8p 28 114.8p 48 196.8p
- 9 36.9p 29 118.9p 49 200.9p
- 10 41.0p 30 123.0p 50 205.0p
- 11 45.1p 31 127.1p 51 209.1p
- 12 49.2p 32 131.2p 52 213.2p
- 13 53.3p 33 135.3p 53 217.3p
- 14 57.4p 34 139.4p 54 221.4p
- 15 61.5p 35 143.5p 55 225.5p
- 16 65.6p 36 147.6p 56 229.6p
- 17 69.7p 37 151.7p 57 233.7p
- 18 73.8p 38 155.8p 58 237.8p
- 19 77.9p 39 159.9p 59 241.9p
- 20 82.0p 40 164.0p 60 246.0p
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