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Maynard H. Evans <mevans@netcom.com> wrote:
>
>I just opened my company's AT&T long distance bill.
>
>I had no long distance calls for the billing period
>but a $5 charge plus $0.15 in tax!
>
>Has this been going on for a while?  I  was 
>unaware - what did I miss?

This has been going on for about a year now.  It (at this time?) is
only applicable to Business service and not to residential.

What did you miss?  Well, I'd guess that they sent out a little 
notice with the bill before instituting this.  You also must have
missed the threads around Usenet (I believe one was in this newsgroup)
when this first started.

There are, from what I recall, some other ways you can deal with 
this besides dumping ATT.  One way is phone line consolidation...
NOT Bill Consolidation (which they charge extra for) but having
all the phone lines worked into one package.  Don't quote me on
this, as I am attempting to recall this from a year ago, but I
believe that if all your lines were packaged as one unit, you 
receive one $5 charge per package which doesn't meet the quota.

[Note: I added ba.consumers to the thread since I know of some people
 who have done this who post there.]