curtisg@sco.com (Curtis Galloway) (02/20/90)
john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) writes: >Curtis Galloway <curtisg@sco.com> quotes from Pac*Bell Bill Insert: >[in addition to the usual stroking--this:] >> o We will share any earnings above a certain level >And if you *ever* see Pac*Bell admitting that it earned 16.5, I'll be >watching for the second coming. Before that would happen, they would >hose down the insides of 100 COs with an acid solution, and buy new >equipment from Pacific Telesis at inflated prices. They would be >totally stupid to let Pac*Bell earn that much and have to give it all >away to the suckers, oops, I mean ratepayers. OK, I can see that. But as a standard residential customer, does the CPUC decision really change the bills I will pay? Monopoly service rates are still regulated by the CPUC. If I never buy Centrex or yellow pages ads, I won't notice much of a difference. Right? (Of course, if Pac Bell ends up inflating prices for business users, we all pay for it.) By the way -- wasn't part of the agreement for Pacific Bell to eliminate the touch-tone fee on local bills? As of January, I was still being billed for it. Curt ``Dangerous'' is the word Miss Manners would use about doilies. --Judith Martin