pf%Islington-Terrace%ti-csl.CSNET@RELAY.CS.NET.UUCP (12/14/86)
Yesterday (Dec 12), I picked up my latest phone bill (dated Nov 25).
Included therein were the usual November charges and my Sprint bill for calls
made in the first half of September. Is this sort of time lag typical? My
default long-distance carrier is ATT, but I almost always use 10xxx. Any
insight into the mysteries of the billing process would be appreciated.
pf
(The address in the header is probably overly conservative; you can drop the
"tilde" and the "islington-terrace", if present, and just use pf@ti-csl.)paul@seismo.CSS.GOV@devon.UUCP (12/22/86)
> Yesterday (Dec 12), I picked up my latest phone bill (dated Nov 25). > Included therein were the usual November charges and my Sprint bill for calls > made in the first half of September. Is this sort of time lag typical? My My most recent phone bill is dated Nov 16th. It includes BOC charges (my BOC is Bell of Pennsylvania) from Oct 24th thru Nov 17th, and LD charges (MCI) from Sep 19th thru Nov 4th. The lag time is not as great as Paul Fuqua's, but MCI is my default LD carrier (I seldom, if ever, use anyone else). I'd be curious if this would explain the difference. An interesting side light to this delay (at least for me!) is that during this billing period, I had made a change as to where I received netnews from. I had been receiving news from a site in the 609 (nj) areacode (I'm in 215), and calls to there are through MCI. I switched to a site in my own 215 areacode, and those calls stay with Bell of Pa. So this bill contained charges for calls to get net news spanning the period Sep 19 to Nov 17 (whew!!). Anybody wanna trade phone bills? The reason I bring this up is to ask the question: Will keeping the bulk of long distance calls within my own areacode reduce my phone bill as compared to having them go primarily to another areacode (and, in this case, another state)? This question assumes a comparable amount of usage as well as comparable billing times (95% are Night/Weekend). Obviously, I wish the answer to be Yes! -paul Paul Sutcliffe, Jr. UUCP: {seismo,ihnp4,allegra,rutgers}!cbmvax!devon!paul Devon Computer Services COMPUSERVE: 76176,502