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On Thu, 6 Apr 1995, John Byczkowski wrote:

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> Prodigy today raised the bar (or lowered it, depending on your point of 
> view) by changing its pricing -- 30 hours a month for $30, with 
> additional hours at $2.95 each.

Digex is $36/month for up to 6 hours/day
Netcom is $40/month for up to 400 hours/month.

PSI, JVNCnet, and several others offer unlimited SLIP and PPP for $100/month.
Netscape costs $35 to register.		Try before you buy.
Trumpet (with applets) is another $30	Try before you buy.
TCP/IP via ftp from microsoft.com is free to WFWG, Win95, and WinNT users.
NetCruiser (for Netcom) is included with the connection fee.

> Not great, but better, considering Prodigy is the only one of the Big 
> Three with a browser. Thirty hours on AOL is $72 or so, and Compuserve? I 
> don't even want to think about it. CompuServe says it'll introduce its 
> browser April 11, and will release pricing then.
> 
> I'm interested to hear from info providers on Prodigy; this will 
> obviously affect their revenues.
> 
> 
> John Byczkowski
> Cincinnati Enquirer
> johnb@iac.net
> 

From rballard@cnj.digex.net Fri Apr  7 12:49:56 1995
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