CER2520@ritvax.bitnet (C. E. Reid) (10/08/89)
[Reprinted without permission from SUNDAY DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE,
Rochester, New York, October 8, 1989, Page 2F]
CELLULAR RATES IN ROCHESTER ARE LOW AS 2 FIRMS COMPETE FOR CUSTOMERS
By Democrat and Chronicle
Genesee Telephone Co. and Rochester Tel Mobile Communications say they
offer among the lowest cellular telephone rates in the nation.
Airtime rates for Genesee Telephone are:
* 17.5 cents a minute during peak time, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
* 16 cents a minute during off-peak time, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday
through Friday and 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and holidays.
* 14 cents a minute during night time, 9 p.m. to 8 a.m. all week.
Association airtime rates for Rochester Tel Mobile are:
* 17.5 cents a minute during daytime hours, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
* 17 cents a minute during evening hours, 7 to 11 p.m.
* 15 cents a minute during night hours, 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.
Those who aren't members of associations getting discounts from Rochester
Tel Mobile must pay 35 cents an hour during daytime, 25 cents during
evening and 20 cents at night.
The charges are made for both outgoing and incoming calls.
Customers of both companies pay a $20 monthly access fee.
In addition, cellular telephone customers must pay message unit charges
for local calls and toll charges for long distance calls.
Genesee Tel customers pay standard message unit charges throughout the
five-county Rochester area (Monroe, Wayne, Ontario, Livingston and
Orleans counties).
But, through a quirk in the system, Rochester Tel Mobile customers don't
have to pay message unit charges for calls between locations in the five
counties subject to long distance charges, such as calls between Sodus
and Canandaigua.
Both companies get discounts on long distance rates.
Genesee Tel customers who call outside the Rochester area must pay 15
cents a minute for calls elsewhere in New York state, 18 cents a minute
for calls elsewhere east of the Mississippi and 22 cents a minute for
calls west of the Mississippi.
Rochester Tel Mobile offers 15 cents a minute for calls elsewhere in
upstate New York, 28 cents a minute for calls to New York City and a 10
percent average discount from AT&T rates for calls elsewhere in the
United States.