Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: October Changes to Wisconsin Bell Message-ID: <13880@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 21 Oct 90 18:43:42 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 29 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 752, Message 1 of 10 Dan Ross writes: > I ordered Touch-Tone on Thursday, and will have it Friday. I had not > ordered it as a protest against charging extra for something which > (according to what I'd read) was _cheaper_ to provide! Have other > areas eliminated the charge? Over a year ago, Pac*Bell offered, among other things, to eliminate the touch tone charges and convert Zone 2 calling areas to Zone 1 (local) if the PUC would allow the company to operate under the "blank check" school of regulation. That was August of 1989. It is now October of 1990. They got "blank check" regulation. We're still waiting for the charges to be dropped. It is amazing to talk to people who are convinced that the charges have already been dropped. Pac*Bell's advertising and media campaign was so effective that just yesterday I astounded a rather telecom-savvy person with the revelation that he was still paying touch tone charges. Pac*Bell's excuse is that it is still trying to figure out how to replace the revenue that will be lost by removing the charge. Someday people will learn that Pac*Bell is long on promises but short on delivery. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !