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		tommccabe on Nov 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Xfinity Internet Data Usage Plans will Comcas... People had to pay long distance fees to call long distance BBSes once. Plenty of power users and hackers came out of that generation.

spullara on Nov 21, 2014 | [–]

There may have been some, let's say workarounds, the long distance charges.

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