Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: comcon!roy@uunet.uu.net (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Measured Service: What Does It Cost? Message-ID: Date: 14 Oct 89 06:13:34 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Computer Connection Lines: 30 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 447, message 4 of 9 Last week, voters in Anchorage turned back an attempt by the Mayor to sell our telephone utility to Pacific Telecom. (Anchorage Telephone Utility is reported to be the last Muni-owned phone company in the U.S.) The publicity fight was intense, and pretty one-sided from PTI's 1 million dollar ad budget. As a result of debating the issue (I campaigned against the sale), I have had lots of requests for information. One of the possibilities raised was restructuring of rates and instituting measured service to gain an effective rate increase in the face of promises to hold the line. I'd like to get some input from the net... Do you have measured service? What are the actual rates? Do you have to juggle zones? Do you have a free-call area? If you were there for the beginning of measured service, what was the introduction like? (was there a public outcry? Was the public even consulted?) Anecdotes are welcome, too. Please e-mail to save bandwidth, and I'll summarize and send it to Patrick for consideration. For the record, PTI owns 62 local Alaskan wireline providers and Alascom, the state's only in-state long-distance company. One of the biggest arguments against the sale was that PTI (based in Vancouver, Washington) would have attained 80% ownership of Alaska's phone service. Roy M. Silvernail | UUCP: uunet!comcon!roy | "Life in the arctic is no picnic" [ah, but it's my account... of course I opine!] -touristy T-shirt SnailMail: P.O. Box 210856, Anchorage, Alaska, 99521-0856, U.S.A., Earth, etc.