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From: zellich@stl-07sima.army.mil (Rich Zellich)
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Subject: Re: What Rate Applies for Phone Used as an Intercom?
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Date: 26 Jul 90 19:54:36 GMT
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In the case of our condominium, since we are registered with the state
as a corporation (of some special sort devised for such
owner-associations), SW Bell insisted on the business rate.  So,
instead, we had a second residential line run from one of the units
with a cooperative owner and now have it billed as a residential line.
We also did two other things:

(1) We had outgoing long-distance disallowed, just as a safety (since
the phone only accepts two-digit codes and dials corresponding local
seven-digit numbers, there's not much chance for toll fraud, but
somebody could always foul up programing the seven-digit numbers ...
or tap into the line, I suppose, since it's more exposed than the
other lines in the building);

(2) Selected measured service instead of flat rate (in Missouri, we
have the luxury of flat rate still being the norm, and measured
service only an experiment - the PUC is on *our* side in this state!)
 - this was done based on the idea that "security" let-me-in calls
would be relatively low in number, and normally of only a few seconds,
rather than minutes, duration.  So far this has worked well, and we
get monthly bills of around $2.50 for this line.


Cheers,
Rich