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From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (daniel lance herrick)
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Subject: Re: Brochure: Resale of Multi-Location WATS Discount
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Date: 22 Jan 91 19:28:25 GMT
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In article <16179@accuvax.nwu.edu>, foxtail!kravitz@ucsd.edu writes:

>    Below is the article from the Ramona California Chamber of Commerce
> newsletter which prompted my previous article.  This article was how I
> came to know of the service.  When I called the Chamber office about
[story and quotation of brochure truncated]

It is a reasonably ordinary aggregation.  The WATS (outgoing) tariffs
allow volume discounts going up to 21% the first year and 22% after
that.  The discounts start at 17.5%.  There is an additional discount
of 4.5% or 5.something % on top of the base discount.  These all have
clever AT&T marketing names.  I have understood the details three
different times while I was looking at Dr. Self's newsletter about the
AT&T tariffs.  (Never five minutes later.)

If you are spending between $2000 or $5000 on the low end and $10,000
or $15,000 per month on long distance, The Watts Association, another
aggregator, can reduce that bill by giving you access to their
discounts for a membership fee.  The Watts Association is at 22% and
5.3% (I think the second one is).  The membership fee is intended to
be a third to a half of your savings, and is a fixed amount agreed at
signup.

The limits come because 1) the minimum membership fee is $25 per month
and the savings have to be big enough to justify it, 2) at the high
end you can get the same discounts direct from AT&T without the
membership fee.

Why do I know anything about this?  I sell it.


dan herrick    Aricol Communications   POBox 1419   Mentor  Ohio  44061
(216)974-9637       herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com