telecom@bu-cs.BU.EDU (TELECOM Moderator) (12/23/88)
Perhaps some of you might consider writing down some "New Year's Resolutions for the Telecom Industry" and sharing them with other readers in an issue of [Telecom Digest] to be published sometime weekend next. You might have some constructive ideas about reform needed in the industry. Perhaps you have an idea for a new telephone gimmick which has never before been considered. Maybe you just want to relate an interesting experience you have had with the 'telephone company' and how you would have handled it. If you send me mail with the subject header "New Year's Resolutions" I will specifically hold it until next weekend and include them all in a special issue at the end of year. Depending on who goes to work/school/etc next week, our volume of mail may drop somewhat, meaning fewer or skimpier-than-usual issues of the Digest until wonderful January gets underway. Depending on what arrives, we should get together at least a couple times next week. This is the eighth holiday season [Telecom Digest] has been around, and some of you have been around since the first issue in June, 1981. My best wishes to you all for a very happy holiday, and a wonderful new year. Patrick Townson
wmartin@ALMSA-1.ARPA (Will Martin -- AMXAL-RI) (12/23/88)
That intrastate LD customers cease to be discriminated against in favor of interstate LD callers; that a uniform per-mile rate be set up for each LD carrier or BOC that provides LD service, and that all calls be charged for based on their mileage at that rate, regardless of whether the call crosses a state line or not. That the offensive "access charge" be eliminated and the needed revenue instead be generated as it should be -- by slightly higher LD rates all across the industry. Will Martin