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AMERITECH CONTINUES HIGH PRICING.
Crain's Detroit Business, May, 1999
Editor: Matt Roush's article concerning the high cost of making "local toll calls" ("Ameritech's profit too high, says rivals' study," May 3) only addresses one of the many high costs of dealing with what is, for all practical purposes, the monopoly provider of local phone service, Ameritech.
Ameritech wrote the Telecommunications Act of 1995, and businesses and individuals alike are suffering the consequences. The article addressed the necessity to dial a cumbersome access code to use another provider when making "local toll calls." That changed on May 12 for most of us in the metropolitan area, and we are now free to select an alternative carrier to Ameritech but no longer will we need to dial an access code. This is known as intralata dialing...
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