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AT&T Canada Joins The Flat-Rate Race
[caps evening and weekend LD at $20/mo]
August 10, 1998
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, Newsbytes via
NewsEdge Corporation : AT&T Canada Long Distance
ServicesCo. has joined other Canadian long-distance
carriers in launching a savings plan that caps residential
customers' monthly bills for evening and weekend
long-distance calling at 20 Canadian dollars.
AT&T Canada's new Dime Time Unlimited Plan retains
the national carrier's 10- cent rate for evening and
weekend calling within Canada, but adds a cap of $20 on
the monthly bill for such calls. This follows the lead of
Sprint Canada Inc., which introduced a plan in July
offering unlimited off-peak calling for $20 a month.
Like a similar plan that Bell Canada introduced in Ontario
and Quebec at the end of July, AT&T Canada's plan
goes a step beyond Sprint's. Whereas Sprint's plan
offers unlimited off-peak calling for $20, Bell's and
AT&T's plans retain a 10-cent-a-minute rate with a
$20-a-month cap. That means customers who make less
than $20 worth of calls in a month pay only for the calls
they make.
Telus Corp., which serves Alberta, announced a flat-rate
plan similar to Sprint's a week ago.
AT&T Canada's new Dime Time Unlimited plan takes
effect immediately, company spokesman Jason Rodham
told Newsbytes. Like Telus' plan, it excludes long-
distance calls to Internet service providers. Bell Canada
spokeswoman Irene Shimoda said her company's plan
has no such exclusions.
Under the Dime Time Unlimited plan, calls within Canada
between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on weekdays cost 20
cents a minute, as do all calls to the United States. No
monthly cap applies to these calls.
Reported By Newsbytes News Network:
newsbytes.com
(19980807/Press Contact: Jason Rodham, AT&T Canada,
416-345-2724; Kathy Howe, Telus, 403-498-7267, e-mail
kathleen.howe@telus.com; Irene Shimoda, Bell Canada,
416-581-4903 or 888-482-0809/WIRES TELECOM/)
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