PacBell ISDN tariffs - CPT correction

[James Love <love@Essential.ORG>]

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INFORMATION POLICY NOTE  - California ISDN tariffs
April 10, 1996

I was wrong about the PacBell announcement on ISDN.  After 
reading some newspaper reports and a press release by 
PacBell, I incorrectly assumed that PacBell was abandoning 
its efforts to charge residential consumers a per minute fee 
for ISDN usage after 5 pm and on weekends.  This is wrong.  
While PacBell has abandoned its efforts to double its per 
minute charges, it has not backed down on its efforts to 
impose per-minute usage fees on residential users for off-
peak use.

Under the exiting residential ISDN tariff, which PacBell is 
seeking to change, residential users do not pay per-minute 
charges after 5 pm and on weekends.  PacBell wanted to 
double its per minute charges for residents and business, 
and then impose the off-peak per-minute charges on 
residential consumers, after a 20 hour usage allowance.  
PacBell had dropped its efforts to double its per-minute 
charges, but it still wants to impose the off-peak usage 
charges on residential consumers.

I regret the error from our previous post on this.  If you 
want to talk with PacBell about this, contact Mary Hancock 
(415/394-3620, mghanco@legsf.pacbell.com), who sent out the 
original PacBell press release, which said that PacBell 
would "raise the monthly fee for ISDN by $8, rather than 
increasing the per-minute charges."  Apparently an increase 
from 0 to 1.46 per minute for evening usage isn't considered 
an increase by PacBell).  I wouldn't have made this mistake 
if I had bothered to call PacBell before sending out 
yesterday's note, and I'll try to avoid this mistake in the 
future.    

  jamie

For 128 Kbps service, here is the correct report about what 
is going on.


                          Table 1
       Cost of Residential ISDN in California - PacBell
                (cents per minute for 2B service

                          New        Per-Minute
                          PacBell    Proposal 
               Current    Proposal   that PacBell
               Res        Res*       Abandoned
								
Day             2.10	  2.10       4.20
Evening          0        1.46       2.92
Night/Weekend    0         .84       1.68

(divide these numbers in half for the charge for using a 
single B channel).

*The off-peak residential per-minute usage fees for 
residential consumers kick in after 20 hours of B channel 
usage (10 hours of 2B).

James Love (love@tap.org,202/387-8030)

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