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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 15:20:44 -0500 (EST)
- From: splee@pd.org (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: SNET Rate Request
- Message-ID: <telecom13.4.9@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 4, Message 9 of 12
- Lines: 26
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- > Needless to say, overall rates are up. To take my home town of
- > Stamford (in exchange class II) as an example, current residence rates
- > are: Flat $11.19, Message $7.59, and Select-a-Call $6.00. New rates
- > (now exchange class III) will be: HCA $15.00, ECA $25.65, and Per Call
- > $10.00.
-
- > It's unclear how the current Flat Rate area (which generally includes
- > your own town and physically adjacent ones) compares to the new HCA's
- > and ECA's, though SNET claims that for "most customers" the new ECA is
- > larger than the current Flat Rate area.
-
- Based on the flyer SNET sent me with my bill, it appears that people
- who need Flat Rate Calling to adjoining exchanges are going to have
- their bills doubled. HCA appears to only cover your own local
- exchange, in my case, Cheshire. That means you have to subscribe to
- ECA to get at least the Flat Calling area you used to have. This means
- my Flat rate would go from $11.19 to $25.65, just so I can maintain
- Flat Rate to the adjoining town. Thats more than DOUBLE! While its
- true that ECA is supposed to give you a wider Flat Rate calling area,
- SNET has not been to public about just how far an ECA each exchange
- will get.
-
-
- Seng-Poh Lee <splee@pd.org>
-
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