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From: zellich@stl-07sima.army.mil (Rich Zellich)
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Subject: Re: Make Sprint Put it in Writing!
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Tad Cook writes:

> WHAT?  How can this be?  Granted, the rate differences between toll
> carriers these days are mighty small, but AT&T cheaper than Sprint?
> Maybe he is comparing apples and oranges ... some AT&T discount
> package against Sprint's regular rates?

Well, the last two times I compared *regular* rates (because I don't
do enough long-distance calling for the discount packages to be cost-
effective for me), the Sprint rates were cheaper than AT&T's only for
the first one (or three) minute(s), after which AT&T's were cheaper.
And the difference on that first increment is only a couple of cents.

Given my calling patterns - a few calls of multi-minute duration each
 - it generally works out that AT&T will be cheaper.