fbi, crypto, and defcon

anonymous-remailer at shell.portal.com anonymous-remailer at shell.portal.com
Sun Aug 4 00:47:58 PDT 1996


> >At 8:50 8/2/96, Paul J. Bell wrote:
> >An international phone call costs about 2 cents/min to produce. The average
> >rate paid for by the consumer is 62 cents. That's means the carriers mark
> >up this particular product by an amazing 3000%.
> >
> >Can you name another business that has comparable mark-ups?
> The Medical Industry.
> PGP encrypted mail preferred.  
> E-Mail me for my key.
> Scott J. Schryvers <schryver at radiks.net>

You guys are confused.  The actual telephone call may cost only 2
cents/min, but the accounting and billing procedures are way more
expensive.  As long as they are doing any kind of usage-based
charging, that actual act of charging will continue to cost
considerably more than the data transmission.

Why do you think sending long-distance IP packets is basically free?

- Tom






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