Money, that is, as rates go up
Low-cost local telephone service is headed the way of hand-crank phones and party lines. Last week the Federal Communications Commission announced that next year local phone companies will be allowed to reach out and touch everybody for an additional $2 a month for a residential line, rising to $3 in 1985 and $4 in 1986. The increases come on top of other new charges sought by local phone companies as a consequence of their upcoming January 1 spin-off from American Telephone & Telegraph. Result: the basic charge...
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