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From: ran@ho95e.UUCP (RANeinast)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Long Distance Charges (AT&T)
Message-ID: <430@ho95e.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 09:22:29 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 20 09:22:29 1986
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> 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.
> -- 
> Bryan D. Ewbank

This is not a rate increase.  It has always been this way.
Look in your phone book.  Mine clearly states (and when I lived
in Illinois I remember that it also stated) that Holidays
(New Year's, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas)
are billed at the evening rate.
-- 

". . . and shun the frumious Bandersnatch."
Robert Neinast (ihnp4!ho95c!ran)
AT&T-Bell Labs