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When local telephone companies ask their customers to choose a long-distance service, many budget-conscious consumers quickly ask for such cut-rate services as MCI and GTE Sprint. But as many as 70% of them never bother to respond. Under current federal communications rules, those customers who do not speak up are automatically assigned to American Telephone and Telegraph, even if they are already using a competing service. MCI Chairman William McGowan, GTE's Theodore Brophy and other AT&T rivals claim that this gives the already dominant company a highly unfair advantage. Last week the Justice Department recommended...
...Atlanta-based broadcasting company owns the Cable News Network, disclosed his designs on CBS in February. But little was known about how he might achieve this until the New York Times reported last week that Turner had lined up support from Financier William Simon, the former Treasury Secretary, and MCI Communications, the long-distance phone company. Simon and MCI reportedly had agreed to chip in a modest $50 million each. MCI Spokesman Gary Tobin denied that his firm had pledged money to Turner, but he acknowledged that the company was sounded out by a third party, whom he would...
...much does it cost to make a 10-minute phone call from Cambridge to New York City at 6 p.m., a weeknight? Allnet: 42.30 MCI: $2.21 AT&T: $2.62 SBS skyline: $ 2.70 First Phone Link Service: $1.64 GIE Sprint: $2.08 ITT: $1.96 US Telecommunications...
...much does it cost to make a 10-minute call from Cambridge to Los Angeles at 5 p.m. Saturday? Allnet: $1.86 MCI: $1.76 AT&T: $1.96 SBS Skyline: $1.70 First Phone Link Service: $1.64 GTE Sprint: $1.67 ITT: $1.67 US Telecommunications...
...competitors a 55 percent discount in local access fees to help compensate for AT&T's advantages as the former telephone monopoly. According to the March issue of Consumer Reports, the least expensive service was SBS Skyline, followed, in order of increasing rates, by Western Union, Allnet, ITT, MCI, GTE, Sprint, and AT&T, SBS Skyline, according to Sesser, was "the over-whelming choice. Not only was it the cheapest service, but it had better voice quality than...