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From: covert@covert.enet.dec.com (John R. Covert  21-Aug-1989 1702)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Paying for Long Distance info
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Date: 21 Aug 89 21:04:17 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 322, message 4 of 8

Long Distance info used to be free.  Then we got competition.  (Competition,
**NOT** divestiture.)

Suddenly, AT&T started carrying all sorts of non-revenue traffic that it
never was able to recover the cost of from offsetting revenue traffic.

People would dial 1-NPA-555-1212, costing AT&T money for the long distance
call, and would then dial their favorite other long distance carrier to
complete the call.

Not fair to AT&T.

As an AT&T residential customer, I get some number of free D.A. calls each
month, as long as I place an offsetting revenue call to that area code.

/john