Of interest:
ICGplans offer 5.9 cents/minute trunk call
Reuters Story - March 11, 1998 04:24
NEW YORK, March 11 (Reuters) - ICG Communications Inc
plans to offer long-distance calling for 5.9 cents a
minute, the Wall Street Journal said Wednesday in its electronic
edition.
The rate undermines the dime-a-minute pricing widely
available to consumers and undercuts Qwest Communications
International Inc's 7.5 cents-a-minute price for calls
using Internet technology, the newspaper said.
The companies are able to offer lower prices in part
because, through Internet technology, their calls bypass the
tolls that traditional long-distance carriers must pay to local
phone companies, which carry the calls into homes and offices,
according to the Journal.
Shelby Bryan, the company's president and chief executive,
said the service will be available to business and residential
customers in 166 markets by the end of the year.
Separately, the company is expected to announce plans to
offer high-speed Internet access to small businesses and some
consumers in the local markets its serves, the newspaper said. |
