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Re: Cost of POTS w/o Long Distance

Wesrock@aol.com
Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:00:24 EST

In a message dated 6 Jan 2006 05:08:18 -0000, John Levine
<johnl@iecc.com> writes:

> Back at the time of the Bell breakup, the access charge was a
> temporary band-aid the FCC added to make up for part of the previous
> subsidy from deliberately overpriced interstate long distance rates.
> It should have gone away in a few years once the telcos went to the
> states to adjust their rates to include it, but that never happened.

It was intrastate long distance that was overpriced. State commissions
required this intentionally to make POTS less expensive to their local
constituencies.

The FCC, which dealt only with interstate L.D., called for low
interstate rates, since the FCC were not involved in the rates for
POTS.

If you lived in a large state, it was particularly noticeable. It
cost a lot more to call from Dallas to El Paso (or v.v.) than it did
to call from Dallas to Phoenix.

Wes Leatherock
wesrock@aol.com
wleathus@yahoo.com

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