OT - Cellphone billing

[Duncan MacGregor]

Uh, ok. 
$2.80 a month. When Bell came through to install jacks for our phones, they 
took one look at the line of bookcases  in front of our  hard-wired Bell 
outlet, and left it that way. Later when they took us to touch-tone, that old 
pulse phone *always* worked. It still does.
Uh, so since their switches work either with pulse or tone, what exactly is 
the tone charge for?

I think they bill for what they can,  and that has not too much to do with 
their costs.

Many party lines in the north have pulse-dial phone, still. But touch tones 
will still work on them.

Dunc
 
On March 1, 2008 04:23:20 pm James Knott wrote:
> D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> > | From: James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>
> > |
> > | On my bill, it's $2.80/month.  As I mentioned in another message,
> > | poverty activists demanded a cheaper pulse line, regardless of any
> > | costs involved. Also, IIRC, touch tones are not a tariffed item, so
> > | it's easier for Bell to change the price.  It's long past the time the
> > | CRTC should have rolled touch tone dialing into basic service.
> >
> > There was a tariff proposal before the CRTC to do just that.  Everyone
> > would pay the $2.80.  I and a horde of little old ladies wrote in to
> > the CRTC to protest that we didn't want to pay for touch tone.  The
> > CRTC kept the existing regime.
>
> So, grandfather those little old ladies and the pulse lines. As the
> pulse lines get canceled, they're gone for good.
>
> > I doubt that it had anything to do with poverty activists.  Poor folks
> > cannot get pulse-only lines.  Only folks that already have them.
>
> They do make a lot of noise, whenever it comes up. As I said above,
> grandfather the pulse lines at the old rate and make touch tone the new
> basic service.
>
> > I would agree with eliminating the tariff, but not just adding it to
> > everyones bill.
>
> Once it's part of basic service, some adjustment will hopefully occur.



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