ken@sharkey.cc.umich.edu (Ken Jongsma) (10/10/90)
Someone was asking about Sprint Select. From this month's bill insert: ...Beginning October 1, US Sprint will offer Sprint Select Interstate Evening/Night/Weekend, a custom plan that charges a flat $8.10 a month for the first hour of interstate calling from 5pm to 8am and on weekends. Additional hours in that period are billed at $6.50 per hour, prorated per minute used. ...You'll receive a 10 percent discount off the regular Dial 1 service rates for your interstate daytime long distance calling. Plus, you'll receive five percent off all direct dial intrastate and international, as US Sprint carried calls. Additional calls cost $6.50 per hour, prorated ... and you can receive the same discounts for daytime Dial 1 service and other direct dial calls as you do with Sprint Select Interstate. It's not clear to me that this is a very good plan, not that it is any different that the AT&T ROA plan. I took a look at the bill I received with the flyer. I had 403 minutes of direct dial calls, of which 85% were evening/weekend calls. The average cost for these calls was .11 per minute (including the Sprint volume discount). Sprint Interstate costs .13 per minute for the first hour and .11 per minute thereafter. If you have Sprint Plus (minimum of $8 usage per month), you get the additional hour rate. What's the advantage? Now, the California intrastate rates might be a better deal, but I live in Michigan! Ken Jongsma ken@wybbs.mi.org Smiths Industries ken%wybbs@sharkey.umich.edu Grand Rapids, Michigan ..sharkey.cc.umich.edu!wybbs!ken