Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: e118-ak@euler.berkeley.edu (e118 student) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: MCI, PAC*BELL in cahoots? Message-ID: Date: 18 Mar 89 01:34:56 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Lines: 17 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 96, message 4 of 9 The MCI person was a bit confused. As a happy user of MCI's "Around Town" feature, I can fill you in on what they mean about eliminating charges for calls from San Mateo. If you use your AT&T or Sprint calling card, you are billed a surcharge ($1.05 or $0.55, or who-knows-what if it's intrastate). However, if you use your MCI card from any phone within a nebulously-described "local" area around your home phone #, it goes through at the same rate as if you dialed it from home -- no 55c surcharge. The "local" area is actually rather generous: I live in Berkeley and made a call from San Rafael, which is just across the line from ZUM-3 to Toll, (about 20 miles in real terms) but it still went through as "Around Town." --Linc Madison = e118-ak@euler.berkeley.edu I have no connection to MCI except that I carry their calling card. (In fact, my home service is on Sprint....)