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From: Colin Plumb <ccplumb@lion.waterloo.edu>
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Subject: Re: Can I Be Charged to Have My Number Not Listed?
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Date: 1 Feb 90 04:03:16 GMT
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In article <3353@accuvax.nwu.edu> kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes) 
writes:

>I sure have a rough life here in Southern Ontario, basic unlimited
>local service, quite a large calling area (population wise) for about
>cdn$13.00/month ie: both lines together are $26.00 and I hear there
>are places you can pay almost that much for *ONE* line!?!??  But we do
>pay extra for touchtone, there are traditions to uphold... :-(

Gee, you seem to be paying too much... I forget how much local service
costs me exactly, but it's $8.xx a month for pulse POTS.  Add rental
of two of the classic indestructible telephones (they were called
something 500's by some TELECOM people, I think) at $1.75 a month and
a bit of tax, and my total local phone bill is about $13.

Of course, I can add $100/month long-distance for myself and almost
the same for my housemates combined and local service is trivial.
Anyone know how to get a really low rate (I've got it to $7.14/hr
using after-11 and a 15% discount plan) to *one number* in Toronto for
a great many hours a month?  I wish I could pay them $100/month to add
Toronto to my local dialling area.  It's only an hour and a half
drive, after all.  

	-Colin