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...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...
...result of a federal antitrust action in 1982, the monopoly American Telephone & Telegraph Co. enjoys over long distance service is being replaced by a policy the Federal Communications Commission calls "Equal Access." Under this policy, all long distance firms (MCI and Sprint are among the better known) will have access to the same equipment and services from independent local telephone operating companies (like New England Telephone). The consumer, in turn, will be able to choose which firm will carry his call after he picks up the receiver and dials "I". The policy is gradually being implemented across the country, until...
...Sprint, MCI, Allnet, and some of AT&T's other competitors also participate in the growing ad war, but none has rivaled Ma Bell's assault on collegiate conversationalists. College Students call home a lot, AT&T reasons, and the folks often foot the bill. As a result, the only advertisement as frequent as that for ROTC in collegiate publications is the AT&T Thinking Student...
...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...