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- Reprinted In File Form On March 25, 1990
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- Orignally Publised In The Montreal Gazette March 23, 1990
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- Bell Proposes Some Cuts In Long-Distance Rates
- By: Carolyn Adolph
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- Bell Canada announced plans to cut long-distance rates by an average of
- 15 per cent yesterday, (March 22/90), saying new equipment had lowered its
- costs and improved its productivity.
- Bell said it hoped to put the new rates into effect this fall, after
- winning approval from the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications
- Commision. (CRTC).
- But the proposal won't be ready for at least two months, and the regu-
- lator has said the rate changes won't be approved outright.
- "We have to hold public hearings," said CRTC offical Pierre Pontbriand.
- "The public must have a chance to comment on the best way to have these
- reductions."
- The proposed changes would apply to calls made from Bell teritory in
- Ontario, Quebec and the Northwest Territories to provinces in the rest
- of Canada. Calls made to the U.S. and on many of Bell's specialized ser-
- vices will also recieve rate reductions. Rates for other countries are
- not affected. (Too bad for you non-phreakers calling the UPi node in
- Holland... oh well. -Tomcat).
- But the cuts would not apply to calls to points within Bell teritory,
- from Montreal to Toronto, for example, Bell official Sylvie Bastien said
- those rates had already declined by 27 per cent since 1987 and were lower
- then rates for calls to other parts of the country.
- Under the rate-reduction scheme for example, the price of a five-minute
- call made between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. from Montreal to Vancouver would drop
- to $2.40 from $2.85, a 15.8-per-cent decline.
- The cost of calling the U.S. will be reduced by an average of 6 per-
- cent. For example, a five-minute call from Montreal to Los Angeles will
- cost $2.80, down 11.1 per cent from the present rate of $3.15.
- Bell said it will also propose reductions for business services such
- as WATS and 800 services and the Between Friends residential service.
- The telephone company said it can afford to reduce its long-distance
- rates because its new network equipment costs less to operate than the
- old equipment. Lowering rates would also keep it out of trouble with the
- CRTC, which forces the monopoly to limit rate of return to between 12.25
- and 13.25 per cent of revenues.
- At a news conference, Bell president Jean Monty denied that the rate
- reductions were a bid to improve customer relations ahead of a bid by
- cable-TV mogul Ted Rogers to compete with Bell on long-distance service.
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