Evil Pete says:

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I can imagine that bandwidth in the fibersphere for text transmission will be too cheap to meter, which means that the cost of metering

------ From: imsi.com!perry@panix.UUCP, Tue, Apr 5, 1994 ------ @ Abeen some years since I noticed the cost of my electric bill. Now, @ admittedly, I'm a fairly well off person, but were my communications @ costs for a very wide band fiber connection, even if usage based, as @ low as that for my electric usage, I would never notice the cost. Interesting to note here, is that if you are paying by the bits for an Movie (full lenght feature film, etc.) and its TOTAL cost is around 3 or 4 dollars, than the cost of voice phone calls and test transfer would be ALMOST to cheap to calculate. It has been discussed that one results is your "network provider" may effectly GIVE you free long distance service if you, for examply, buy your movie "rentals" from him/her. Harry Shapiro Hawk Manager of Computer Services Warwick Baker & Fiore habs@uucp.warwick.com