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From: nol2105%dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil@dsac.dla.mil (Robert E. Zabloudil)
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Subject: Re: Bell of PA Calling Card Calls
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Date: 15 Feb 91 00:52:58 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 116, Message 15 of 15


In article <16677@accuvax.nwu.edu> DREUBEN@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Douglas
Scott Reuben) writes:
X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 92, Message 6 of 12

> -A 1 minute call (11:30PM) from Reading, PA (215-373-9??? -payphone)
> to New Castle, DE (302-740-7626), with my calling card, was $1.18, via
> "Bell Atlantic" (or really Bell Of PA). This was the "default" which
> the payphone used, naturally.

> -The same call the next day, from the same payphone, to the same DE
> number, at 12AM, was only $.12 cents on my Reach Out America Plan. If
> I did not have the plan, it would have been $.92. (Note that this is
> between two states, 1so ROA's Calling Card discount is applicable.)

> Why would Bell of PA charge MORE for a call than AT&T, in between TWO
> states?  (and not IN-State).

Was this call by chance totally within your BoPA LATA?  They can cross
state lines occasionally (NW Bell has one in four states).

I can make a one-minute call from Columbus to Johnstown, OH, as a 1+
call for 19 cents, evening rate; the same call costs 14 cents if I
dial it 10288-1+.

Not exactly analagous, to be sure.


Bob Zabloudil   rzabloudil@dsac.dla.mil    std.disclaimer disclaimed


[Moderator's Note: Where I've seen some bizarre ways of dialing is by
using Telecom*USA's 'local calling via 700' option. That carrier
allows purely local, intra-lata calls by using 1-700-desired number in
place of your local area code. In other words, as a Telecom*USA
customer I can dial locally 368-8000 or I can route through Telecom
dialing 10835-1-700-368-8000, where 700 is presumed to mean 'the area
code you are calling from now'. How they get away with it I don't know;
but they have offered it for several years.   PAT]