cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan) (09/28/90)
In article <12640@accuvax.nwu.edu> John Higdon <john@bovine.ati.com> writes: >If you think about it, why "WATS" or "ProWATS" or "ROA" or any of that >stuff? Why not just have a sliding scale where the rate gets cheaper >as usage increases? The "special" plans are nothing more than theater >to convince the customer that he is getting something "special". Metromedia ITT does exactly this. There is a volume discount which increases in several steps. I don't make enough calls to trigger more than the first step of the discount, which is (I think) 5%. OTOH, Metromedia >still< doesn't seem to deal with supervision properly, even though I have them as my 1+ carrier. I go through the bill every month and remove ALL calls of 1-2 minutes duration, as I always talk longer than that. I also deduct 3% excise tax. To their credit, MM/ITT has never had a word to say about this practice, and even (back when they were Telesavers, Inc.) actually encouraged it. cowan@marob.masa.com (aka ...!hombre!marob!cowan)