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john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) wrote:

>In article <313F274D.4890@lawgate.byu.edu>, Paul Holmes Masters
><mastersp@lawgate.byu.edu> wrote:
>
>> I just compared by MCI bill with Sprint's offer of 10 cents/minute to 49 
>> states and 7 cents/min to California (25 cents between 7AM-7PM) and 
>> noted the bill was about 35% more than MCI. 
>
>AT&T/MCI/Sprint are the top three in terms of price. In light of the fact
>that there are around one hundred fifty long distance companies doing
>business in the Bay Area, why do people keep forking it over to those
>three bandits?
>
>One of these days, people are going to wake up and smell the money.

People are not asleep, it's just that there are no better deals for
residential long distance than the big three (I don't know what's
going on in the bay area). The small LD carriers you are talking about
deal in bulk selling discounted time to businesses. Most residential
bills are well below the required minimum to get lower rates.

The situation is quite different on the international market. There
are at least two companies that offer very low international rates to
residential customers. They do not advertise their services though so
almost nobody knows about them.

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