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Originally Posted by plib
20 years ago it cost $2 a minute to call the UK from North America, and there weren't any deals available. Today I can get plans to call for 2 cents a minute or less. There are plenty of alternatives available if a supplier decides to up its rates and they know it, no one has tried to jack up my rates for over three years.
You really think this has nothing to do with losing the telco monopoly? I save a lot more than pennies. "One long-distance phone service" is Dante's Ninth Circle.
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Sure it probably has
something to do with it. I just know that I've never made an international phone call in my life... so my experience with telco's deregulation has been nothing but: "no thank you", "no I'm not interested", "I'm staying with my current provider", "thanks, but no thanks." Not to mention fighting to get my original provider back when another provider illegally switched my service. My time is money too. And "One long-distance phone service" didn't waste my time... or ever piss me off.