################################################################ # # This is a kppp ruleset for Eircom (formerly Telecom Eireann) # for a special Esat deal of £17/month flat rate to get you their # ISP calls uncharged and unrated evenings and weekends. Other times # they cost a regular phone call from your Telco (eg Eircom) # # 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. *THIS FILE* # # "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 ################################################################ name=Ireland_Eircom_Special # 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) # For this special deal, this should be covered by the rules below per_connection=0.0 # Therefore the minimum cost is the same as the per-connection cost minimum_costs=0.0 # Therefore the first 180 secs costs this much no matter what. flat_init_costs=(0,0) # 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 (0.115,180) 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 :-) # This is where the Esat deal bites: on (monday..friday) between (18:00..23:59) use (0,0) on (monday..friday) between (00:00..08:00) use (0,0) on (saturday..sunday) between (00:00..23:59) use (0,0)