I remember similar things in the UK, having to pay both a monthly subscription price and a per-minute fee to access the internet. When I got a broadband connec

I remember similar things in the UK, having to pay both a monthly subscription price and a per-minute fee to access the internet. When I got a broadband connection in the mid nineties it was a double win - no longer did I have to pay by the minute, and when I was online I could still make and receive phone-calls from my landline. (I sometimes feel nostalgic when watching films in which early dialup was featured, hearing the sound of the modem negotiating it's almost immediately obvious what their baud rate was set to 28.8k or the 56k!)