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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!opencon!giand
- From: giand@opencon.com (Deepak S. Gianchandani)
- Subject: Re: long distance calling
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.193509.5998@opencon.com>
- Summary: AT&T and rates
- Sender: giand@opencon.com
- Organization: OpenCon Systems, Inc.
- References: <Bzq3x5.A36@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <44029@zygot.ati.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 19:35:09 GMT
- Lines: 64
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- In article <44029@zygot.ati.com> john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) writes:
- >In article <Bzq3x5.A36@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> thomasl@silver.ucs.indiana.edu ((thomasl)) writes:
- >
- >>thomasl@silver is about to begin phone service. It is necessary to
- >>choose a long-distance carrier. Which carrier is most recommended?
- >
- >What a way to start up a major debate and flame war. No one can answer
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ok lets get one
- going :-). Just kidding.
-
- >that question for you. You must evaluate your calling patterns and
- >check each carrier for plans that fit your requirements the best.
- >
- >......... Some stuff deleted ........
- >
- >And be sure that you throw out yours and others' preconceptions. I use
- >AT&T. Why? Because none of the other carriers can touch the rates I get
- >from AT&T for the places and times I call. I'll bet you never thought
- >someone would choose AT&T on price. That fact that the service is
- >superior is a bonus.
-
- Sir, since you have already compared prices, especially for
- the difficult areas you try to reach (I can't believe the
- others can't reach it, since mostly, AT&T had lines up there and
- were forced to share lines with MCI and SPRINT after the break
- up). For price comparison's it would be hard for me to believe
- that MCI could not beat AT&T, I call India a lot ($200 above
- each month) and call within the USA over 3hours each month, so
- for MCI has been the cheapest. Customer service is another
- topic. For price, among the top three, i.e. AT&T, MCI and
- SPRINT, AT&T almost always looses. Thats because they provide
- better service, and it's not a bonus its build into the cost,
- from my point of view :-).
-
- India Discount Plan (world Plan $3.00 a month)
- AT&T MCI SPRINT
- 1.35 (15% discount 1.55 (two numbers 1.23 a minute
- included) at 1.23 a minute)
-
- With reference to your earlier statement:
- >that question for you. You must evaluate your calling patterns and
- >check each carrier for plans that fit your requirements the best.
-
- You are valid, that the person needs to check his calling
- patterns and see which plans best suits him. In the example I have
- chosen, If someone calls more than two numbers in India, SPRINT would
- be the cheapest, MCI next and AT&T last.
-
- Please note: I'm not promoting any LC company. I'm just reinforcing
- the statement that, MR. Higdon made that each person must look at his
- calling patterns and then decide.
-
-
- >
- >--
- > John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 264 4115 | FAX:
- > john@ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | 10288 0 700 FOR-A-MOO | +1 408 264 4407
-
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