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Show II Telephone rate increase effective with May 19 billing in Utah area New telephone rates will become be-come effective here beginning with bills dated May 19, 1969, according to Jack Dalton,,, district dis-trict manager for Mountain States Telephone. The Utah Public Service Commission on April 11 authorized author-ized the company to increase rates by $2,094,123 annually. It has been 11 years since telephone tele-phone rates were adjusted upward. up-ward. In 1964, charges for res- idental service were reduced 25 centes per month. I New rate schedules call for an increase of 35 cents for one-party one-party residential telephone service ser-vice and $1.10 for an individual business line per month. One of the major changes approved was package billing for switchboard and key telephone tele-phone service. This new billing practice enables customers to choose service features rather than individual 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 telephone connection within a business. 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 extension 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 interstate schedule. With the new rates, no station-to-station call in Utah will have a cost differential of more than five cents greater than that for an interstate call of the same distance dis-tance 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. increas-ed. Night rates on this type of service 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 tele- phone company by $2,085,804 annually. This is $8,319 less than was authorized by the Commission on the April 11, I960 order. A live shopping center depends de-pends on two groups: wideawake wide-awake merchants and ready buyers. It doesn't take much skill to write a love letter. But it may take considerable skill to get it back. |