Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bu.edu!telecom-request
From: wah@tuck.cs.fit.edu (Bill Huttig)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: MCI Personal 800 Service
Message-ID: <74415@bu.edu.bu.edu>
Date: 10 Feb 91 18:55:58 GMT
Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu
Organization: Florida Institute of Technology, CS Dept., Melbourne, FL
Lines: 42
Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu
X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 108, Message 6 of 8


In article <74382@bu.edu.bu.edu> WANCHO@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (Frank
J. Wancho) writes:

>What I confirmed was that as an MCI customer, the monthly fee was $2,
>and that the rate of $6.50 per hour was in one minute increments, no
>minimum, and applied to in-state as well as interstate calls.  It was
>the in-state feature that I asked to be double-checked and reconfirmed.

The rep gave you wrong info.

>The change in policy is significant: the rate to be applied to the
>incoming Personal 800 calls is tied to the PrimeTime service you
>already have.  I have only PrimeTime Texas, which is $11.25 for the
>first hour and $10.50 for subsequent hours.  Incoming Personal 800
>calls originating within Texas will be billed at the PrimeTime Texas
>rate, not the $6.50 per hour rate.  If the incoming calls originate
>elsewhere, they will be charged at the $15 per hour rate, not the
>$6.50 per hour rate, because I don't have regular PrimeTime service.

I was under the impression there were the following packages:

 1) Primetime with personal 800 - cost  6.50 1st hr, $1.00 daytime discount
	 $2.00 for the 800 number. daytime calls discount 10% plan hours
	  .1083/min

 2) same as above with a state option around $2.00 includes intrastate calls

 3) stand alone 800 - only 800 number $5/mo and .25/min

 4) stand alone 800 for MCI customers - only 800 number $/2 mo primtime hours
	.1083/min interState and .225/min all other times and intrastate

There are about ten states where number two is not available ... Texas
is one of them. I guess you expect most of your calls from within
Texas?  You could set up another account with them as option four
(saying you had the regular primetime with MCI's other division). You
cant have both primtime Texas and Primtime Plus? ... Guess I am lucky
to live in Florida..


Bill