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πŸ“„ 2007-11-28-bell-launches-distances-based-billing-in-miles.md by @bmann


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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.

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