From: azaxyr@aol.comicrelief (Azaxyr)
Subject: AT&T Blows
Date: 1999/09/03
Message-ID: #1/1
Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
Newsgroups: fido.phones


Their newest scheme is charging $3 per month as
a "customer maintenance fee", in additional to the
other already ridiculous fees that they "pass on"
to the customer.

Basically, I've just gotten a bill for the last two months
from AT&T for over $11, and I didn't make one long
distance call.

So I'm paying them $11 every two months not to use
their service.  Boy, what a deal!  Next they'll be charging
for the air that you breathe while speaking into the phone.

I suggest everyone call your local phone company and
elect to have no designated long distance carrier on your
phone.  Thus you'll pay the $1.50, or something minimum
carrier fee - but that's better than paying some $6 a month
for a service you don't even use.

You can use 10-10-321 at any time you want to make a
long distance call - and they don't charge you anything
if you don't use their service.  Wow- what a concept!
They're also cheaper at 99c for the first 20 minutes and
9c thereafter, as opposed to AT&T's ridiculous 15c per 
minute rate.

And screw AT&T.

"All these worlds....

...Will make excellent sites for our garbage dumps."