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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4840)	5/21/1999 6:36:00 PM
From: John Stichnoth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

US cellular pricing seems to be trending to low nominal per minute, but actual prices higher. Here's one ATT plan, for instance. $29.99 starts you off with wireless plus home long distance plus calling card usable anywhere in the US. (Note: ATT does not offer local calls under this plan). Calls you make are 10 cents per minute: domestic long distance, and wireless in your local area, and calling card at a pay phone anywhere in the US. The local area for the wireless part is regional, for instance New York City area includes all of Long Island, into Westchester and New Jersey outer commuting areas. Outside your local area wireless calls are 60 cents per minute. International calls are pretty cheap (London, 10 cents per minute). By charging $30 to start, ATT really ups their per minute revenues. You'd have to make 300 minutes of calls to get your average calling cost down to 20 cents. If most people call only 100 minutes in a month cellular plus long distance, then ATT's getting 40 cents per minute on average.