University Daily Kansan, August 27, 1981
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Phone bills ring up less with MCI rates to cities
BY CINDY HRENCHIR
Staff Recruiter
Staff Reporter
If Ma Bell's tab for your last wave of homesickness left you gasping, MCI Telecommunications might be able to cut your next phone bill.
Calling Washington, D.C., using the Bell System from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. costs 64 cents for the first minute, Bell officials said. Microwave Communications Inc., however, charges 38 cents for the first minute of a call to Wichita costs 25 cents. The Bell System charges 53 cents for the same call.
If you are more than a Sunday afternoon long-distance caller, the system may cut your bill. But with the Bell system's weekend rates, the average caller would not save much with the MCI system.
For someone calling Wichita, MCI costs 23 cents for the first minute at 3 p.m. Sunday. With the weekend offered by Bell that call costs 18 cents for the first minute and 13 cents for each additional minute.
MCI began as a network between Chicago and St. Louis in 1968. Since then, it has spread to more than 125 large and medium-sized cities
DAVID LONGHURST, owner of the House of Usher printing company, began using the service earlier this month.
"We saw one of their ads on the television," said Longhurst. "That's how we found out about them. We found MCI rates to be a significant savings."
The Bell system has worked with MCI, allowing them to lease lines for residential service. But controversy has developed.
AT&T, of which Bell is a subsidiary, is governed by the Federal Communications Commission. MCI is not regulated. The FCC requires that the Bell system provide service to everyone.
MCI, on the other hand, is not required to do so, and provides service.
According to Pauline Knight, district manager for the Bell system here in Lawrence, Bell must provide service to sparsely populated areas.
"It would cost too much to charge these customers what expenses were created by giving them service," she said.
SO THE CHARGES are spread out, and long-distance is one of the ways of taking care of these expenses. MCI, meanwhile, has cut heavily into this
This has created tensions between the two companies.
While ignoring smaller areas such as Colby, MCI is able to offer three types of services for metropolitan areas such as Kansas City.
Excunet is a 24-hour service offered by MCI for businesses. It costs $10 a month plus charges for calls. The 24-hour additional service also cost $15 plus calls.
The Super-Saver is the company's economy package. The service costs $5 a month plus charges for calls. It offers free Wi-Fi, and all day on weekends and holidays.
THE SIGNAL is carried by microwave towers that are spaced at 28-mile intervals between major cities. The phone's receiver is the subscriber's phone must be touch-tone.
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