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Show I New telephone rates now in effect New telephone rates will become be-come effective in Cedar City I beginning with bills dated May 19, 1909, according to W. Dee Jensen, local manager for Mountain States Telephone. The Utah Public Service Commission on April 11 authorized auth-orized the company to Increase rates by $2,094,123 annually. It has been 11 years since telephone rates were adjusted upward. In 19(!4, charges for residential service were reduced reduc-ed 25 cents per month. New rate schedules call for an increase of 35 cents for one-party residential telephone tele-phone service and $90 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 bill-ing practice enables customers to choose service features rather ra-ther 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 resi-dence 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. dis-continued. Charges for extension ex-tension telephones will be reduced re-duced to 75 cents per month. New economy long distance calling times have b.?en established es-tablished 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, placed at the same time of day. In some cases, Utah rates will be lower. Charges for person-to-pcrson 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. Tile new rate schedule, approved ap-proved by the Public Service Commission May 12, will increase in-crease revenue for the tele-phono tele-phono company by $2,085,804 annually. This is $8,319 less than was authorized by the commission on the April 11, 1969, order, Jensen said. |