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Show Telephone Rates Increased May 19 New telephone rates become ft'ectivo in Beaver beginning with bills dated May 19, 1969. according to Gerald Vickers, local manager for Mountain States Telephone. The Utah Public Service Com mission on April 11 authorized the company to increase rates by $2,094,123 annually. It has been 11 years since telephone rates were adjusted upward. In 1964 charges for residential service ser-vice were reduced 25 cents per month. New rate schedules call for an increase of 40 cents for one-party one-party residential telephone service ser-vice and 90c for an individual business line per month. One of the major changes approved ap-proved was package billing for switchboard and key telephone service. This new billing practice prac-tice enables customers to choose service features rather than individual in-dividual parts and pieces of a telephone system. Charges for connecting new telephones will increase to four dollars for all work done on the same order at a residence and four dollars for each line or tele phone connection within a business. busi-ness. The one-time charge for color and Princess telephones will be reduced to two dollars and the charge for nine and thirteen foot cords will be discontinued. Charges for expansion telephones tele-phones will be reduced to 75 cents per month. New economy long distance calling times have been established estab-lished to correspond with the rttercpxte ?hdule. With the new rates, no sitation to station call in Utah will have a cost differential of more than five cents greater than for an interstate inter-state call of the same distance placed at the same time of day! In some cases, Utah rates will be lower. Charges for person-to-person calls will generally be increased Night rates on this type of service ser-vice will be eliminated and the same rate will apply 24 hours each day. The new rate schedule, approved ap-proved by the Public Service Commission, May 12. will increase in-crease revenue for the telephone tele-phone company by $2,085,804 annually. |