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diff --git a/kppp/Rules/Ireland/Eircom_Local.rst b/kppp/Rules/Ireland/Eircom_Local.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5c898cdb --- /dev/null +++ b/kppp/Rules/Ireland/Eircom_Local.rst @@ -0,0 +1,164 @@ +################################################################ +# +# This is a kppp ruleset for Eircom (formerly Telecom Eireann) +# for standard local calls (NOT special-rate Internet 1891 calls). +# +# Unbelievably, Eircom has now dropped the former (ludicrously +# irrelevant) distance-based charge-bands on direct-dialled calls. +# They still remain for operator-connected calls but these are +# (a) a rarity and (b) unusable for modems anyway. Calls in Ireland +# are therefore in one of the following categories: +# +# 1. Local calls +# 2. Special-rate Internet calls (ISPs with 1891 numbers) +# 3. National calls (ie all other trunk or long-distance calls) +# +# Note that some Telcos offer special deals of a fixed-rate per-month +# charge which gives you unlimited, uncharged local calls in off-peak +# times. At other times, your standard Telco rates apply. +# +# "Local" is as hard to define as in any other Telco administration, +# as it can cross area codes, even when they are in different regions, +# in order to allow people to call their neighbours 100 yards away +# even though they may technically be in an area code which would +# normally qualify as "long-distance", because such calls don't go +# onto the trunk, just the local exchange. +# +# Note all values here include Value-Added Tax at 21% current +# at 31-Dec-1999 +# +# Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> +################################################################ + +name=Ireland_Eircom_Local + +# Define IEP (Irish Pounds) to be used as currency symbol +# ??? There is no way to define the currency code AND the symbol !!! +# WARNING this will have to be changed to EUR from 2002-01-01 +currency_symbol=£ + +# Define the position of the currency symbol. +# (not absolutely needed, default is "right") +# ??? Curious default, why not left, which is _way_ more common? !!! +currency_position=left + +# Define the number of significant digits. +# (not absolutely needed, default is "2" +currency_digits=2 + +# NOTE: rules are applied from top to bottom - the +# LAST matching rule is the one used for the +# cost computations. + +# It costs 11.5p the moment a call connects. This covers the first +# 3 mins (peak hours, 8am-6pm M-F) or first 15 mins (off-peak) +per_connection=0.115 + +# Therefore the minimum cost is the same as the per-connection cost +minimum_costs=0.115 + +# Therefore the first 180 secs costs this much no matter what. +flat_init_costs=(0.115,180) +# A pity there's no peak/offpeak differential for this one. + +# All subsequent charging is done per-second, based on the unit +# charge of 11.5p for 3mins (peak hours) or 11.5p for 15mins +# (off-peak), which works out at £0.000638889/sec and £0.000127778p/sec +# respectively...that's what they claim, anyway. + +# Rather than expect kppp to check the rate every second and add +# tiny fractions, I've expressed these rates in terms of the amount +# needed to clock up half a penny (or the closest amount exceeding +# that value obtainable by multiplying the per-second rate by an +# integer). Not a whole penny, because you may be damn certain the +# bean-counters will round up half-penny amounts to the nearest +# whole penny anyway (anal-retentive, are we? :-) + +# Thus the base rate for peak-time calls is £0.005111 for 8 secs +# (0.115 / 180 = 0.000638889 / 0.005 = 0.127778 inv = 7.8261) +# and off-peak is £0.005111 for 40 secs +# (0.115 / 900 = 0.000127778 / 0.005 = 0.25556 inv = 39.1304) +# so accounting should happen in approx 1/2p increments... + +# OK, here we go... + +# Because of the need to detect time-of-day as well as initial-period, +# this default should never actually get applied, but we assume that +# connections are made in the peak rate period... +default=(0.005111,8) + +# PEAK-TIME CALLS are 8am to 6pm Mon-Fri, so after flat_init_costs +# this rule should apply: +on (monday..friday) between (08:00..18:00) use (0.005111,8,180) + +# OFF-PEAK CALLS are 6pm to 8am Mon-Fri plus all day weekends and holidays +# This needs to supersede the flat_init_costs on time, because that +# only applies to the first 180 secs of PEAK-TIME calls +on (monday..friday) between (00:00..08:00) use (0.115,900) +on (monday..friday) between (18:00..23:59) use (0.115,900) +on (saturday..sunday) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.115,900) +# Thereafter the default applies after the first 15mins +on (monday..friday) between (00:00..08:00) use (0.005111,40,900) +on (monday..friday) between (18:00..23:59) use (0.005111,40,900) +on (saturday..sunday) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.005111,40,900) + +# KNOWN HOLIDAYS + +# New Year's Day +on (01/01) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.115,900) +on (01/01) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.005111,40,900) + +# St Patrick's Day +on (03/17) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.115,900) +on (03/17) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.005111,40,900) + +# Easter Monday +on (easter+1) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.115,900) +on (easter+1) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.005111,40,900) + +# May Day (Bealtaine) +on (05/01) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.115,900) +on (05/01) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.005111,40,900) + +# Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day +on (12/25) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.115,900) +on (12/25) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.005111,40,900) +on (12/26) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.115,900) +on (12/26) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.005111,40,900) + +# This file should be refreshed every year to take account of the +# moveable public holidays we inherited from the British practice, +# known as "Bank Holidays" (originally the quarter-days when banks +# had to close for accounting purposes, but now almost unpredictable). +# These happen several times a year, always on a Monday. Dates +# for 2000 are June 5th, August 7th, and October 30th. +# The exact dates are known several years in advance and are fixed +# by the Taoiseach's Office and the Dept of Local Government. +# They are NOT the same days as British Bank Holidays, which are +# fixed on a different basis. + +# June Bank Holiday 2000 (in lieu of Oimelc/Imbolc, which was in Feb) +on (06/05) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.115,900) +on (06/05) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.005111,40,900) + +# August Bank Holiday 2000 (Lughnasa) +on (08/07) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.115,900) +on (08/07) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.005111,40,900) + +# October Bank Holiday 2000 (Samhain) +on (10/30) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.115,900) +on (10/30) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.005111,40,900) + +# No automatic account is taken of Transference, when a fixed public +# holiday occurs on a weekend, which means the following Monday becomes +# a holiday in compensation. (1/1/2000 is a good example!!) + +# Transfer New Year's Day holiday 2000 to first working day afterwards +on (01/03) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.115,900) +on (01/03) between (00:00..23:59) use (0.005111,40,900) + +# None of the other fixed holidays in 2000 needs this doing. + +# When Christmas occurs on a Saturday (and St Stephen's Day therefore +# on a Sunday), ONLY the following Monday is a holiday, not the Tuesday +# as well (sorry, guys :-) |