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From: ix21@sdcc6.UUCP (David Whiteman)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: AT&T Reach Out America "service" experience
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Date: Sun, 19-Jan-86 14:06:48 EST
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Mr. Berry stated in a previous article that it is impossible to find
out the rates of the various long distance phone companies.  He
cited that because of deregulation ATT can no longer post their
rates.  When I was working for Calpirg, which is a consumer research
group at UCSD, I found that it was quite easy to obtain the rates of
the various long distance companies; all you had to do was call them
up and ask.  With one exception every company was willing to both
give the rates over the phone of a call place between two given
cities and mail to us their "official" rate chart.  Two companies
even were willing to offer a discount rate to UCSD students when
they heard about this survey.  The one exception was ATT; they
only gave out the discount the Reach Out America plan offered, but
they were not willing to mail their current rate schedule.

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David Whiteman,
University of California, San Diego