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From: eddy@jafus.mi.org (Eddy J. Gurney)
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Subject: Re: October Changes to Wisconsin Bell
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Date: 25 Oct 90 18:31:12 GMT
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In article <13855@accuvax.nwu.edu> dross@cs.wisc.edu (Dan Ross)
writes:

>Future Change in Local Usage Service
>[elimination of all residential local call plans; replacement with
>"Volume Discount Plan," with sliding scaled prices on calls, in
>addition to $9.50/mo charge.  PSC requires Wisc Bell to implement this
>no later than July 1, 1992; no decision on when it will happen.]

>Number of Local Calls Made		Price per Local Call
>	1 - 60					6 cents each
>	61- 150					5  "
>	151-300					4  "
>	301-400					3  "
>	401-1200				2  "
>	1201 and up				5 cents each 

>[Example paraphrased:  70 calls cost 60*0.06 + 10*0.05 = $4.10]

Yuck.  I certainly hope this isn't a trend that's going to happened
everywhere.  Unlimited local calling is a "must" for people with uucp
connections or what have you.  For example, over the summer, my
roommate and I both had a U*ix box in our bedrooms.  We both called
once an hour - me on the hour, him on the half hour.  We got our phone
bill the next month, and the kind souls at Michigan Bell told us we
had made something like 1,456 local calls.  At that calling rate,
that's $72.80, FOR LOCAL CALLS!  Pretty ridiculous, if you ask me.  (I
know, how often are you going to have two uucp systems that poll
hourly on the same residential line ... but it CAN happen. :-)

I like unlimited local calling.  I'd rather pay for touch tone and
still have that option available than get touch tone for free and have
to pay for all the local calls my computer makes.


         Eddy J. Gurney  N8FPW         THE ECCENTRICITY GROUP       
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