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Subject: Re: The So-Called Long-Distance Add-on
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Date: 23 May 90 18:49:38 GMT
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In article <7895@accuvax.nwu.edu> covert@covert.enet.dec.com (John R.
Covert 17-May-1990 1012) writes:

>There is _no_ long-distance add-on.  The only relationship that the
>access charge has to long distance is that it replaces the subsidy
>that AT&T used to pay local phone companies out of the old, higher,
>long distance rates.

Now that the Baby Bells have grown up, does anyone see a chance of the
access charge being repealed? 


Larry Geary: 74017.3065@compuserve.com 
	     lmg@mtqub.att.com