Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Mon, 20 May 91 19:45:10 CDT From: "Roy M. Silvernail" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Intrastate Rates and Competition Message-ID: Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 384, Message 6 of 11 Lines: 22 In message ,floyd@ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson) writes about intrastate phone rates in Alaska: > The rates are lower, but the ratio is still the same. LA would be > cheaper than Nome. I don't know for sure, but isn't intrastate > service more expensive than interstate just about everywhere? Yes, in my experience they are. > Now the interstate rate structure is based on the cost of providing > interstate service, and the same with intrastate service. Before I left Alaska, I recall GCI campaigning heavily for the right to compete against Alascom for intrastate service. Did anything ever come of that? GCI claimed it would be able to slash intrastate rates with a comparable level of service. Roy M. Silvernail roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu roy@cybrspc.uucp(maybe!)