🚀 go-pugleaf

I am appalled that NYNEX (?) would charge $5.- per month.
GTE here (Santa Barbara, CA) charges $1.-/month, and I am
a bit upset about that. I figured that I wouldn't pay it,
since they had no means of denying me tone service anyway,
so I carefully registered the pulse-dialing equivalents of
whatever tone instruments I had, until the last time I moved
when they didn't even ask me any more what instruments I had.

Then last week, I got a letter saying that on January 21st, they'd
install new equipment to deny tone service to lines that didn't
pay for it, and I could "upgrade" my line "for free" now (i.e. no
service charge, just an increased monthly charge) or if I asked for
the upgrade after Jan 21st, they'd charge $15 for the upgrade.
So I crumbled and let them get away with it.
Question: I know that it's a fraud in the sense that not only does it
not cost them extra to provide tone service (in fact it saves them 
money, as Larry Lippman pointed out) (and they really oughta charge for
PULSE service) but I'm sure it will - given the present equipment -
actually COST them to DENY tone service. But does the facility to
deny tone service actually exist ?

Just wondering ....

	Lars Poulsen @ Advanced Computer Communications
	<Lars@ACC.ARPA>