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March 19th 12, 08:52 PM
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Phone roaming on the high seas, was in the US and Canada was card numbers
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:10:54 +0000 (UTC), John Levine
wrote: I wonder if any if any passenger ships that cross the Atlantic Ocean offer such a service, such as Cunard's Queens. Many cruise ships offer incredibly overpriced cell service with satellite uplink. Prices are upwards of 2 quid/minute. R's, John Like the Good Ole Days for wired "international" calls! NZ to Aussie: 3 quid/minute with a 3-minute minimum in the mid-60's when a Pound was a helluva lot of money. |
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March 19th 12, 09:05 PM
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Phone roaming on the high seas, was in the US and Canada was
On 19/03/2012 21:52, Nobody wrote:
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:10:54 +0000 (UTC), John wrote: I wonder if any if any passenger ships that cross the Atlantic Ocean offer such a service, such as Cunard's Queens. Many cruise ships offer incredibly overpriced cell service with satellite uplink. Prices are upwards of 2 quid/minute. R's, John Like the Good Ole Days for wired "international" calls! NZ to Aussie: 3 quid/minute with a 3-minute minimum in the mid-60's when a Pound was a helluva lot of money. That's expensive, it was a pound a minute (off-peak) UK - Kenya at that time. -- Graeme Wall This account not read, substitute trains for rail. Railway Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail |
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March 31st 12, 01:24 AM
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Phone roaming on the high seas, was in the US and Canada was card numbers
On Mar 19, 6:05*pm, Graeme Wall wrote:
That's expensive, it was a pound a minute (off-peak) UK - Kenya at that time. In the 1980s new circuits and improved technology greatly increased the number of calls that could be handled, and lower the cost. This likewise applied to US long distance calls. In the 1970s, terminal equipment was still so expensive that sometimes it was cheaper to simply run copper between two points rather than carrier circuits. It's hard to believe how much the cost of electronics has plummeted since then. The high cost of electronics was a reason that step-by-step switching equipment remained the best choice for many years. The peak deployment of SxS wasn't reached until 1974--that is, up to 1974 they were still adding SxS lines despite the availability of crossbar and ESS. |
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