Re: Phone rate hike

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From: Paolo Pizzi
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 08:15

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song@bart.uucp (James Song) writes:

>serge@netcom.com (Innocent Bystander) writes:
>>
>>Returning to people who don't know or don't care how to dial 10xxx, under the
>>new rate structure, Pacific Bell still gets away with charging more than LD
>>companies (and remember, they pay Pacific Bell to complete the LD calls
>>locally, and Pacific Bell does not have that overhead, which constitutes
>>a major part of the LD rates when they get below 10c/min).  

>Well, I tried 10xxx last night to dial 818 area from 310 area. It did not 
>work.  I got a message saying that my long distance company cannot access 
>that area. I ended up dialing 00 to have the operator connect it for me.
>I am in the GTE area and my long distance company is Sprint. Right now
>I don't know if it is GTE that purposely blocked the connection or Sprint
>screwed up. But Sprint's operator will file a problem report.

>--James

Switch to MCI! :-)

Paolo

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Subject: Re: Phone rate hike
Date: 28 Jul 1994 01:15:00 -0700
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