Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!derep.DEC.COM!goldstein
From: goldstein@derep.DEC.COM.UUCP
Newsgroups: mod.telecom
Subject: NYNEX billing plan rejected
Message-ID: <8612180326.AA26308@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 13:52:00 EST
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8612180326.AA26308
Posted: Thu Dec 11 13:52:00 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 18-Dec-86 06:32:02 EST
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The ARPA Internet
Lines: 9
Approved: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu

The FCC ignominiously rejected the NYNEX proposed access charge billing
plan.  The plan would have moved the originating-side interstate access
allocation from the long distance carrier (it's about 4c/minute of all
calls) to the end user.  There would have been a sliding scale discount,
so big users would pay less.  Billing would have been a nightmare.

Stay tuned for more weird billing schemes.

--------------------