🚀 go-pugleaf

Dnia 13 Jan 99 o godz. 6:39, Moi napisal(a):

> ***Bardzo zaluje, ze przegapilem. A musialo byc calkiem niedawno,
> bo nasze ceny przestaly byc najnizsze od jesieni, a na
> wieksza skale - od konca roku.
Dziwne to co piszesz... Znalazlem jedno z takich zestawien - pochodzi z 
Pigulek z 1995 r. (!!!), i bynajmniej polaczenia w Polsce nie byly wtedy 
najtansze:

Table 1. Cost of 1 hour long *local* telephone call from your home, in
US currency.

City            Country         Peak    Disc.   Lowest price
------------------------------------------------------------
Auckland        New Zealand     0.00    0.00    0.00
Ottawa          Canada          0.00    0.00    0.00
New York        USA             0.10    0.06    0.04
Any place       Australia       0.19    0.19    0.19
Sao Paulo       Brazil          0.49    0.49    0.49
Helsinki        Finland         1.04    0.12    0.12
Eindhoven       Netherlands     1.13    0.57    0.57
Stockholm       Sweden          1.16    0.58    0.58
Any place       Poland          1.17    1.17    1.17
Any place       Germany         1.67    0.83    0.83
Any place       Netherlands     1.89    1.13    1.13
Any place       France          3.10    1.55    1.03
Zuerich         Switzerland     3.17    1.40    1.40
Any place       Belgium         3.18    2.12    1.06
Any place(1996) Germany         3.48    2.09    1.30
Cork            Ireland         3.78    0.76    0.76
Any place       Great Britain   3.79    1.58    0.96
Vienna          Austria         4.14    4.14    4.14

One may argue, that the same amount of money has a different meaning in
Poland than in the US, because of income differences. I have used the
available Gross National/Domestic Product (GNP/GDP) data (*) to
calculate  the daily share of GNP/GDP per person (DS). DS is higher in
rich countries; the cost of telephone call as percentage of DS shows,
how big a hole in average budget makes a single, hourlong phone call.
Table 2 shows the cost of the telephone call as a percentage of DS.
Table 2. Cost of 1 hour long *local* telephone call from home, expressed
as a percentage of a daily share of GNP/GDP per person (DS)

City            Country         Peak    Lowest DS ($)
------------------------------------------------------------
Auckland        New Zealand     0.00%   0.00%   37.7
Ottawa          Canada          0.00%   0.00%   53.7
New York        USA             0.16%   0.07%   60.7
Any place       Australia       0.42%   0.42%   44.6
Helsinki        Finland         1.47%   0.17%   70.7
Stockholm       Sweden          1.81%   0.91%   63.9
Eindhoven       Netherlands     2.52%   1.26%   45.0
Any place       Germany         3.25%   1.63%   51.2
Zuerich         Switzerland     3.36%   1.48%   94.5
Any place       Netherlands     4.20%   2.52%   45.0
Any place       France          5.87%   1.47%   52.9
Any place       Belgium         6.73%   2.24%   47.2
Any place(1996) Germany         6.79%   2.55%   51.2
Vienna          Austria         7.18%   7.18%   57.7
Sao Paulo       Brazil          7.81%   7.81%   6.3
Any place       Great Britain   8.57%   2.17%   44.2
Any place       Poland          9.92%   9.92%   11.8
Cork            Ireland         11.51%  2.30%   32.8

Pozdrowienia,
   Jaroslaw Rafa
   raj@inf.wsp.krakow.pl