On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 at 20:24, Wayne S via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
They had a lot of local numbers so you didn’t have to
pay Toll charges.
Only in the USA, or maybe N America.
Most of the world, AFAIK, we all paid for all calls, local and
long-distance. Local was cheaper but it was by the minute which really
killed off BBS type activity.
I had to explain this to Netscape Inc on a transatlantic call in 1996.
They had no idea.
It persisted until the very late 1990s in the UK and Ireland.
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