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From: contact!ndallen@uunet.uu.net (Nigel Allen)
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Subject: Re: Alert: AT&T May Consider Removing TDD Long Distance Discount
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Date: 26 May 90 12:50:17 GMT
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[speculation that AT&T may eliminate the 50% discount on TDD calls]
 
The rationale for the discount, IMHO, is not that TDD users are
economically disadvantaged.  It's that TDD calls take longer than
corresponding voice calls, so the discount means that a TDD
conversation that transmits as much information as a voice call that
takes half as long will be changed the same amount.
 
Bell Canada offers a 50% discount on long distance to registered TDD
users, and as far as I know, has no plans to eliminate the discount.
Of course, it would require CRTC approval to do so.
 

Nigel Allen
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