Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!xylogics!bu.edu!cs.bu.edu!telecom-request From: langz@eng.sun.com (Lang Zerner) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Touchtone Fee Abolished in CA Message-ID: <59800@bu.edu.bu.edu> Date: 28 Jun 90 22:24:11 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca. Lines: 46 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 460, Message 9 of 11 In article <9183@accuvax.nwu.edu> john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) writes: >Lang Zerner writes: >> ... PacBell has finally ... removed the "value-added" fee for Touch-Tone >Oh? When did they remove it? I'm still paying it, last time I checked. OK. To be precise, PacBell announced in a bill-stuffer that Pac Bell has applied to the PUC that the charge be removed. The proposal still gets to go through an open hearing and all the rest of the red tape. Unfortunately, I did not save the notice, since it is not all that important to me. Nevertheless, John's message encouraged me to get mor detailed info for others who may be more interested than I. The Pac Bell employees I spoke with did not seem to know much about application, except that it had been sent to the CPUC (they no doubt got the same notice in their bills :-). The CPUC was a bit more helpful. After calling the CPUC (415/557-0647) and getting connected to the telecommunications dept., I was transfered to Mr. Galen Dunham, "the man who really knows about that." While courteous and affable, Mr. Dunham did not even know the application number of the proposal. He was able to tell me that similar proposals have come up in the past and failed to make the tariffs mainly because of the cost of new plant. Mr. Dunham explained that eventually, the justification for the fee (cost of new plant) will not be there anymore, at which point the tariff change will go into effect. Mr. Dunham then referred me to Ms. Pat Ma (415/557-3766) and Ms. Sheila Otteson (415/557-1580), "the people who really know details about the proposal"). I have been trying to reach them to get the application number, but to no avail. I've left a message with them, and if they call back I will post what I learn. Otherwise, I won't bother, but interested parties now know how to contact them. Be seeing you... Lang Zerner langz@prodigal.sun.com 415/594-9268 P A T R I C K A. T O W N S O N (The Cheerful Iconclast) ptownson@cs.bu.edu ptownson@chinet.ch.il.us ptownson@eecs.nwu.edu Unique Zip Code 60690-1570 MCI Mail: 222-4956 AT&T Mail: !ptownson