Cut-rate calling now benefits more than one million of Sprint's Southern Operations customers.APOPKA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 25, 1996--More than a million of Sprint's Southern Operations customers can now pocket savings from cut-rate calling. For the fourth time in the past six months, Sprint is expanding local calling and dramatically reducing rates by getting rid of some old regional long distance charges. Nearly 339,000 Sprint local telephone customer lines in Southwest Florida Southwest Florida is a region of Florida located along its gulf coast, south of the Tampa Bay area, west of Lake Okeechobee and mostly north of the Everglades. It consists of five coastal counties from Manatee County south to Collier County, although it sometimes is considered to are involved in the latest activations, which Sprint is instituting Nov. 25, 1996. The seven new calling routes will affect eight cities and communities in six counties. Sprint's residential and business local telephone customers will now have Extended Calling Service (ECS See eComStation. ) in both directions from Fort Myers Fort Myers, city (1990 pop. 45,206), seat of Lee co., SW Fla., on the Caloosahatchee River, near the Gulf of Mexico; founded 1850, inc. 1905. It has a tourist trade and light industry and is a shipping point for citrus fruits, winter vegetables, flowers (especially to Naples, Fort Myers to North Naples, Fort Myers to Punta Gorda Punta Gorda may refer to:
The new ECS plans are a direct result of Sprint responding to customer requests for expanded local calling. Under the plans, residential customers can call for 25 cents per call, unlimited duration, and business customers can call for 10 cents for the first minute and 6 cents for each additional minute. The ECS rates apply both ways between the communities served by the plans. "The latest extended calling service activation activation /ac·ti·va·tion/ (ak?ti-va´shun) 1. the act or process of rendering active. 2. the transformation of a proenzyme into an active enzyme by the action of a kinase or another enzyme. 3. is part of our commitment to bring customers bigger calling areas," said Brian Craven CRAVEN. A word of obloquy, which in trials by battle, was pronounced by the vanquished; upon which judgment was rendered against him. , manager of external communications for Sprint's Southern Operations. "Nearly two-thirds of our customers are now benefiting from at least one ECS plan we've implemented in the last six months." This extended calling service became possible in March 1996 following the deregulation Deregulation The reduction or elimination of government power in a particular industry, usually enacted to create more competition within the industry. Notes: Traditional areas that have been deregulated are the telephone and airline industries. of the ECS review process. Customers' monthly savings from ECS plans are dramatic. Since a typical midday
For the new ECS route that includes Arcadia and Wauchula, customers must dial 1+ the area code and the number, but the calls are automatically billed at the ECS rates. Customers included in the new ECS routes from Fort Myers to Naples, Fort Myers to LaBelle, Fort Myers to North Naples, Fort Myers Beach to North Naples, Fort Myers Beach to Naples, and Fort Myers to Punta Gorda have seven-digit dialing both ways between those ECS areas. Sprint is notifying no·ti·fy tr.v. no·ti·fied, no·ti·fy·ing, no·ti·fies 1. To give notice to; inform: notified the citizens of the curfew by posting signs. 2. customers of new ECS routes through bill messages and inserts, as well as through an advertising campaign. Sprint's Southern Operations, part of Sprint's Local Telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. Division, serve more than 1.7 million customer telephone lines and 3.3 million people in some 350 communities in 36 Florida counties, stretching from the Panhandle panhandle, in geography, a strip of land projecting from the main body of an area and shaped like the handle of a pan, such as the panhandles of West Virginia, Texas, and Alaska. to the Everglades. Sprint has the lowest percentage of Florida Public Service Commission Florida Public Service Commission (FPSC) is an independent regulatory agency serving the public of Florida by managing its public utilities such as telecommunications, electricity, natural gas, water, and wastewater. complaints of any major Florida local telephone company for the past six years, and has some of the lowest local phone rates in the nation -- 30 percent below the national average. -0- EDITOR'S NOTE Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : See attachment for latest calling areas. -0-
SPRINT EXTENDED CALLING SERVICE ACTIVATION
NOV. 25, 1996
ECS ROUTES: Fort Myers to Naples; Fort Myers to North Naples; Fort
Myers to LaBelle; Fort Myers to Punta Gorda; Fort Myers Beach to
Naples; For Myers Beach to North Naples; Arcadia to Wauchula.
CITY/EXCHANGE NXXs AFFECTED
(a) Fort Myers, Alva, Cypress
Lake, East Fort Myers, Jet
Port, South Fort Myers: 267, 274, 275, 277, 278, 332, 334,
335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 418, 432,
433, 437, 454, 466, 476, 477, 479,
481, 482, 489, 561, 590, 693, 694,
728, 768, 936, 939, 996
(a) Naples: Naples Moorings,
Naples Southeast, Golden Gate: 261, 262, 263, 348, 352, 353, 403,
417, 434, 435, 436, 455, 643, 649,
732, 774, 775, 793
(a) North Naples: 513, 514, 566, 591, 592, 594, 597,
598
(a) LaBelle: 674, 675
(a) Punta Gorda: 505, 575, 637, 639
(a) Fort Myers Beach: 463, 765
(a) These ECS routes are dialed with seven digits and are 25 cents
per call, unlimited duration, for residential customers and 10 cents
for the first minute, six cents each additional for business
customers.
CITY/EXCHANGE NXXs AFFECTED
(b) Wauchula: 767, 773
(b) Arcadia: 491, 494, 993
(b) These ECS routes are dialed with 1+ area code and number, but
calls are automatically billed at the ECS rates of 25 cents per call
for residential customers and 10 cents for the first minute, six
cents each additional for business customers.
CONTACT: Sprint, Apopka Brian Craven, 407/889-6807 |
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