CER2520@ritvax.bitnet (C. E. Reid) (07/17/89)
I will discuss Rochester, NY's local calling plan offered by Rochester
Telephone Corporation (the largest independent telephone company in the
country, I believe).
Exchanges within the city of Rochester is quite large: 68 exchanges for
Rochester itself alone plus 38 suburban exchanges for a total of 106 exchanges
available to the subscriber.
Almost all suburban echanges have local calling to Rochester exchanges with the
exception of Avon exchange which does not have any local calling plan except
itself.
Depending on what service you have (flat-rate or message-rated), you have a
pretty large area to call! With flat-rate service (which I have) is very
useful to modem callers. (Recently, I heard that Rochester Telephone sent a
rate change request to the Public Utilities Commission that they put a 80 calls
cap on flat-rate calls. In other words, if I make more than 80 calls, they
will charge me the message unit rate of 8.3 cents over the 80 for my flat-rate
service. I believe it is an incentitive for me to switch to the 80 call
allowance ($8.53 versus $11.61. There is a public outry now so I don't know if
this will get approved or not.)
The exchanges are grouped by Group Number which corresponds to the monthly
charges. There are 5 groups:
Group 2 (Avon, Cohocton, Nunda)
Group 3 (Atlanta, Castile-Gainsville-Silver Springs, Dansville,
Hemlock, Leicester, Mt. Morris, Perry, Springwater, Warsaw,
Wayland)
Group 4 (Canandaigua, Geneseo, LeRoy, Livonia, Naples, Pavilion)
Group 5 (Wyoming)
Group 9*** (Bergen, Brockport, Caledonia, Churchville, E.
Rochester-Pittsford, Fairport, Hamlin, Henrietta, Honeoye
Falls/Lima, Rochester, Rush, Scottsville, Victor, Webster,
West Webster)
Groups 1 and 6-8 are not listed in the phone book and I do not know what these
are for. I suspect these groups are for business use.
Basic Schedule of Residence Rates:
Rate Group
Service 2 3 4 5 9
Residence
Flat Rate Lines
Individual, each 5.49 5.91 6.35% 7.00 10.41%
2-Party, each pty - - - - 8.31%
4-Party, each pty 3.72 4.08 4.57% 4.84 -
Message Rated, Lines
Individual-80, each - - - - 8.53
Individual-50, each - - - - 6.93
Individual-0, each 3.95 3.95 3.95 3.95 3.95
LifeLine #
Basic* 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
Expanded** 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00
Message Units
Messages above allowances for Message Rated Lines are charged at a rate of
8.3 cents for each additional message. Calls placed to "974" public
announcement services are not part of message call allowances and are billed
separately.
% EAS surcharge applies to all of Rate Group 9 and to Livonia in Rate
Group 4. (A monthly surcharge of $1.20 will apply to those exchanges
which are provided with flat-rate, non-adjacent Extended Area Service
(EAS)).
# For more information, see Call Guide 11 & 12.
* No Monthly allowance for local calls. Message units are charged at the
rate of 8.3 cents per unit. A 10% discount applies to the first five
dollars of direct dialed local usage.
** Includes a monthly usage allowance of $10.00; message units in excess
of this allowance will be charged 8.3 cents per unit.
*** Rochester Metropolitan Service Area.
Curtis Reid
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