IP: Swedish Telia abolishes long distance rates

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>To: Multiple recipients of list <telecomreg@relay.doit.wisc.edu>
>From: Arno Wirzenius <arnow@iki.fi>
>
>Did telecomreggers notice the following (copied from
>www.telia.se (they do have English pages):
>
> >2000-02-14
> >Telia introduces local rate for calls throughout Sweden
> >Beginning February 15, 2000, Telia is discontinuing long-distance rates in
> >Sweden and introducing one daytime and one evening/weekend local charge
> >for calls to any destination in Sweden. In the new pricing plan, all 
> national
> >calls in Telia's fixed network will cost SEK 0.115 per minute in the 
> evenings
> >and weekends, and SEK 0.23 in the daytime.
>
>FYI: one US$ is around 8.6 SEK, thus the calls are peak rate $ 0.027
>and off-peak $ 0.013.
>
>What would happen in USA or Canada if all long distance charges
>were abolished and only local call charges left? Can this be
>understood as real cost based charging: when costs change, charges
>are changed, too?
>
>
>
>Arno
>
>------
>Arno Wirzenius
>Telecoms consultant, www.iki.fi/arnow/