covert@covert.enet.dec.com (John R. Covert 21-Aug-1989 1702) (08/22/89)
Long Distance info used to be free. Then we got competition. (Competition, **NOT** divestiture.) Suddenly, AT&T started carrying all sorts of non-revenue traffic that it never was able to recover the cost of from offsetting revenue traffic. People would dial 1-NPA-555-1212, costing AT&T money for the long distance call, and would then dial their favorite other long distance carrier to complete the call. Not fair to AT&T. As an AT&T residential customer, I get some number of free D.A. calls each month, as long as I place an offsetting revenue call to that area code. /john