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From: carols@world.std.com (Carol Springs)
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Subject: Re: October Changes to Wisconsin Bell
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Date: 23 Oct 90 12:03:40 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 756, Message 11 of 12


In Vol. 10, Issue 750, Dan Ross quotes from his Wisconsin Bell insert:

>Touch-Tone Service
>Effective in October, 1990, Wisconsin Bell has eliminated the $1.50
>per month charge for residential touch-tone service.

>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?

As of October 19, New England Telephone has *raised* monthly
touch-tone from 58 cents to 98 cents.

Toll charges within area codes 617 and 508 (eastern Mass.) have been
lowered:

    Distance (miles)     First minute           Each additional minute
                     Day  Evening  Night/Wknd    Day  Even'g  Night/Wknd
    0-10            0.19   0.124     0.076      0.09   0.059    0.036
    11-14           0.26   0.169     0.104      0.12   0.078    0.048
    15-up           0.32   0.208     0.128      0.14   0.091    0.056

Various other rate changes have been implemented.  These include rate
increases for the various classes of service (e.g., an increase of
about $3/mo. for basic residential Unlimited Service) and the
elimination of the 30 message unit allowance on Measured Service.  On
the plus side, toll-free local calling has been expanded to include
bordering exchanges in all cases.

As I understand things, NET had considered charging for 411 directory
assistance, but this proved to be a political no-no.  Guess where the
money is coming from instead?


Carol Springs                      carols@world.std.com