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From: wah@zach.fit.edu (Bill Huttig)
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Subject: Re: Telecom*USA 800 Service
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Date: 30 Jan 91 18:22:34 GMT
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In article <16510@accuvax.nwu.edu> eddy@jafus.mi.org (Eddy J. Gurney)
writes:

>$25.00 service charge, and that the rate was $2.75/month.  Calls will
>be billed at $0.29/minute during the day and $.2175/minute during the
>evening.  This sounds very similar to the numbers you have now, and
>cheaper than MCI's personal 800 service, which is $5.00/month and

MCI's personal 800 number is MUCH cheaper ... no $25 service charge
...  only $2/mo (with Primetime) and .225 a min day and .1083 evenings/ 
weekends (with Primetime).  Even at the $5/mo rate it would take over
eleven months to make up the difference; and the calls are .25 day and
somewhere around .20/min other times.


[Moderator's Note: One thing I neglected to note originally (or
comment upon yesterday) was that I did not pay any $25 service charge
or set up fee. That must be something new MCI has added since they
took over.   PAT]