djcl@contact.uucp (woody) (01/21/91)
In the first Canadian case (to my knowledge) of a telco dropping the extra charge for touch tone (referred to in BC Tel lingo as Touch Calling), the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission received an application (Telecom Notice 1991-7 for those interested, BC Tel Tariff Notice 2240) to increase all local service line rates by $0.90 residential, $1.90 business (Cdn funds), but allow for either pulse or tone service. Exchanges or areas without tone equipment can receive a price break for the local line charge equivalent to the price increase involved. If this passes, the BC Tel wants to drop rentals and repairs on rotary equipment, and to equalise the phone set rental rates to that rotary will cost as much as tone (standard phone sets).