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From: dross@cambizola.cs.wisc.edu (Dan Ross)
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Subject: Re: October Changes to Wisconsin Bell
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Date: 31 Oct 90 21:13:58 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 779, Message 11 of 13


In article <14022@accuvax.nwu.edu> eddy@jafus.mi.org (Eddy J. Gurney)
writes:
>X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 763, Message 2 of 10

>In article <13855@accuvax.nwu.edu> I (dross@cs.wisc.edu) write:

>Future Change in Local Usage Service
>>[elimination of all residential local call plans; replacement with
>>"Volume Discount Plan," with sliding scaled prices on calls...]

>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       

I don't know that the tariff was trading unlimited calling for
touch-tone.  Even if it was, unlimited calling puts a load on the
local phone network (if taken advantage of), contrasted with
touch-tone which costs the phone company nothing (at this point).  I
was getting pretty tired of waiting for my push- button phone to
complete the dialling sequence, but didn't see why the phone company
should charge for touch-tone when the equipment had been already put
in place.


Dan Ross	dross@cs.wisc.edu