TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: France -- $6.75 for Three Minute

Re: France -- $6.75 for Three Minute

T (nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net)
Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:09:47 -0500

In article <telecom25.67.3@telecom-digest.org>, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
says:

> An AT&T/Bell System ad in the March 1972 National Geographic:

> "When you want to be in France for business or pleasure but can't get
> away...telephone. It's easy to get there in no time. The cost is low.
> As little as $6.75 plus tax for a three minute station to station
> call. Calling France is the next best thing to being there -- as well as
> a very cheap way to get there."

And now I pay 4 cents a minute from the U.S. to most G8 nations,
including France. How things have changed.

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