layout: post
title: Bell launches distances based billing…in miles
created: 1196308817
categories:
- Bell
- long distance
- billing
- telecom
- Canada
So, my friend Dave in Ottawa posted about how he received a flyer, showing Bell’s new deregulated long distance rates, to go into effect at the end of January 2008. As I said in the comments on his post, you can practically “hear” his disbelief at this move: the base long distance rates rates are based on….distance. Using Canada’s national unit of measure, the “mile” of course. Err…what?
Here’s the scan that Dave did of the new rates:
I’m still checking to see if it’s April Fools early this year or not…read the full level of ridiculousness over at Dave’s site.