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So if you don't make any long distance calls, you either have to pay $6 a year per line to the phone company for the priveledge of not having a long distance carrier, or you have to pay $9.60 a year to your long distache carrier so they can pay the same value to your local phone company. Seems either way you get nothing for something.
Business and residential phone service have different rate structures and different regulatory tarriffs. That this was n a residential bill does not mean that it applies to business lines as well It's worth researching, but I don't know what we'll find out. I would guess that in the case of business accounts, if this specific charge is what the phone companies are worried about, they wouldn't worry about it too much. Plenty of people don't make many long distance calls from home. Businesses do. On the other hand, if it's an excuse to raise rates, the phone companies may ake it, or may worry that their competitors won't.
i suspect that it may well be impossible in this market to get a written statement of rate (specifically without a "subject to change without notice" clause) from any telephone service provider local *or* long distance. i think the chaotic nature of our telecommunications system is reflective of a totally inadequate regulatory structure, but that's another item in another conference.
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Telco (Dial and Save) does not appear to be charging me anything per month on the new long-distance service that I put in at my house under construction in order to avoid a 59 cents/month charge. Not only that, as a first time long distance service it was free, and Telco sent me a check for $4.90, so I am $4.90 ahead. I am happy with Telco at my other two numbers. I mean there was not the usual $4.90 charge to switch services, not that the long-distance service is free, it is 10 cents/minute (15 cents 9-5 weekdays, unless you pay $3/month). (Is it okay to put info like that here?)
I suppose it's ok to put it here, but if that's residential service rather than business service, it's not particularly relevant. Residential and business service are priced quite differently. At this point, although it sounds like that's changing, almost nobody is charging a monthly service charge or a minimum bill amount on residential service. As long as there are major companies that aren't, it would be very hard for a company to compete if it were charging that. In contrast, on business lines, a $5 or $10 minimum would not be a competitive disadvantage, becuase most businesses need to make at least that much in long distance calls every month anyway.
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