Joe Nicholson wrote in a message to Matt Mc_carthy:

 JN>  Of course we've been paying a surcharge on phone bills for
 JN>  umteen years for the privilege.  That's why I don't see how  a
 JN> phone company can charge "premium price" when the fee has 
 JN> supposingly already been paid.

I want to know how the hell come the phone company can still stick a
surcharge on there for touch tone service,  when at this stage of things it
costs them _more_ to support pulse dialing...

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