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From: mrk@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM (Michael R. Kesti)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: FCC doing it again...
Message-ID: <933@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM>
Date: 11 Dec 89 18:59:54 GMT
References: <1989Nov28.011514.4193@virtech.uucp> <246@cfa.HARVARD.EDU> <1146@cirrusl.UUCP> <255@zircon.UUCP> <26@gagme.uucp>
Reply-To: mrk@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM (Michael R. Kesti)
Organization: The Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA
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In article <26@gagme.uucp> greg@gagme.UUCP (Gregory Gulik) writes:
>[...] somebody from the phone company called and informed us that
>they will be adding the touch tone service fee to our bill from now
>on since they have detected the use of a touch tone phone on that
>line.

The way I understand it is that the real irony here is that it actually
costs the phone company less to provide the touch tone service (a matter
of economy of scale) but that the Public Utility Commission(s), who set
the rates, insist on charging according to the "value" of the services
provided, not their cost.  I'd say that this results in it being worth
a phone company's while to actively search out persons such as Greg, and
get that billing upgraded!

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