PACIFIC BELL HIKING PRICE OF PAY PHONE CALL.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. The cost of a local call on a Pacific Bell pay telephone will increase to 35 cents beginning Monday, the company has announced. The 15-cent hike is the first in California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). since 1984. The increase is the result of the 1996 Telecommunications Act There are several laws named the Telecommunications Act
To reduce or eliminate control. One of the major forces in the financial markets in the 1970s and 1980s was the federal government's decision to deregulate interest rates. the phone industry and boost competition in local phone service. Directory assistance information, which had been free of charge from area pay phones, will soon cost 35 cents after technological modifications are made. There will be no charges for 800, 888 and 911 calls. ``The price for a local call from our pay phones has not changed in years and the cost of providing quality pay phone service to our customers is increasing,'' Pacific Bell spokesman Tom Weber Weber, river, United States Weber (wē`bər), river, c.125 mi (200 km) long, rising in the Uinta Mts., N central Utah, and flowing north and northwest to join the Ogden River at Ogden. The combined stream flows to the Great Salt Lake. said Friday. ``Rate increases are never popular, but they are sometimes necessary.'' Pacific Bell will begin converting pay phones to the new price later this month. All pay phones will be converted by the end of the year. |
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