> At 05:37 PM 13/06/96 +1000, you wrote:
> ISPs aren't that expensive here - imagine you'd be paying no more than
Yeouch! Man that is expensive. Here in Canada I am paying 35$ a month for 50
hours access time via my ISP. That works out to about $0.70 an hour or $1.5
British Pounds. I guess it has a lot to do with the amount of providers in
North America, competition keeps the prices down.
> At 05:37 PM 13/06/96 +1000, you wrote:
How do you figure. The pound to US dollar exchange is 1.5 dollars to the
pound. So it should be about 45 pence an hour.
> At 05:44 PM 13/06/96 +0100, you wrote:
> How do you figure. The pound to US dollar exchange is 1.5 dollars to
Yes that is true but I said Canada. You know were are not using the same
currency, eh?:) Over (up?) here the current exchange on the pound is
approximately $2.12 dollars to the pound.
> At 05:44 PM 6/13/96 +0100, you wrote:
> Yeouch! Man that is expensive. Here in Canada I am paying
You're right, though it should be about 35 pence. The conversion is about 2
Pounds Sterling to the Canadian dollar. I pay C$25 for 25 hours. This is a
fairly typical (if slightly high) ISP cost in the Toronto area. A more typical
cost is about C$30 for 60 to 90 hours access.
That's NOT how you should calculate the cost, though. If you're comparing an
hourly ISP with a flat fee ISP, then you should take the flat fee cost and
divide it by your typical monthly usage. For instance, as I said, I pay
about C$25 per month. I only use my account about 12 - 13 hours because
I
have a high-speed work account I use for most of my net surfing.
Therefore I'm paying about C$2 per hour. If I went to an account that gives me
60 hours for $30, I'd be paying about $2.40 an hour. If you only spend an hour
a month on the net, then even Compu$erve's high cost might be cheaper than a
flat fee ISP. Of course, if I were to use my home account a lot more, my
hourly cost goes down.