mike@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell) (07/16/89)
Way back when, before divestiture, when measured service for local calls
was first dreamed up, Mountain Bell decided it wanted to get on the bandwagon.
Their first proposal said that there would be measured service for all New
Mexico calls. The New Mexico State Corporations Commission (which has
oversight responsibilities for all public utilities in the state) said nothing
doing.
Next proposal was to drastically split local calling areas, effectively
converting intra-city calls in Albuquerque and Santa Fe often into long
distance calls. Again, the NMSCC rejected the proposal. The final arrangement
was what we still have. First, measured service is allowed only if
unmeasured service is also offered; second, unmeasured service will be priced
as if it were all that was offered; third, incorporated cities cannot be
split into more than one local calling area.
It works nicely.
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