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From: rep@panda.UUCP (Pete Peterson)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Long Distance Charges (AT&T)
Message-ID: <1319@panda.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 09:21:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 20 09:21:26 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 20-Jan-86 22:41:41 EST
References: <512@ihlpl.UUCP>
Reply-To: rep@panda.UUCP (Pete Peterson)
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Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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Summary: 

In article <512@ihlpl.UUCP> bde@ihlpl.UUCP (Ewbank) writes:
>For those people using AT&T long distance:
>
>	I was looking over my bill for December, and noticed that
>	calls that I made on Christmas day were charged at the
>	*evening* rate, not the *night and weekend* rate.  I called
>	the help number and asked what was going on.  The operator
>	told me that AT&T had changed the rate structure "recently" so
>	that calls made on holidays are billed at the evening rate.
>
>	Did ANYONE see notification of this rate increase?  This is
>	the first time that I had heard of it.  We *really* got burned
>	because we are on the "Reach Out, America" plan, and assumed
>	that calls on holidays were covered.
>-- 
Checking phone books for this area back as far as 1981, I found that they all
claim that calls for Christmas and an assortment of other holidays are billed
at the evening rate unless they are made at a time when a lower rate would
normally apply.
		pete peterson