Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!telecom-request From: carols@world.std.com (Carol Springs) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Important Change in Sprint Plus Rates Message-ID: Date: 24 Jun 91 12:58:59 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 29 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 486, Message 2 of 12 In article Ken Jongsma writes: > As of June 3, the Sprint Plus plan has been changed. Sprint no longer > bills evening rate calls as night calls. Instead, all evening and > night calls will will be discounted at 20%. Day calls will be > discounted at 10%. The $8/month minimum has been waived. This is misleading and needs clarification. The $8/month figure was the minimum amount Sprint billed its Sprint Plus customers. In return, customers had their evening calls billed at night rates. Since evening calls are now billed at standard evening rates, the $8/month minimum would no longer make much sense. The volume discounts Ken refers to are another issue entirely. Customers must now make at least $20/month worth of calls to get the 20%/10% volume discounts on interstate dial-1 calls that Ken mentions. Whereas previously a person could make, say, $10/month worth of calls and still come out a little ahead of the standard plan on evening calls, one must now have $20 worth of calls to get any real benefit out of Sprint Plus whatsoever. (The minimum bill to get the old 10% volume discounts was $25. I'm uncertain whether there are any small, token volume discounts for customers failing to meet the minimum, the way there were under Sprint Plus Classic.) Clear as mud? Good ... Carol Springs carols@world.std.com