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Show 'Metropac' Will Offer Wider Area For Telephoee Use A new optional telephone service, "Metropac," will be introduced in the Pleasant Grove, American Fork and Le-hi Le-hi areas in late 1971, according to W. Merrill Hymas, district manager for Mountail Bell. Metropac is an optional service ser-vice which for an additional single monthly charge expands the customer's toll-free calling area to telephones in all exchanges ex-changes within a radius of 24 miles of the local telephone office, of-fice, he said. The service will provide customer-dialed toll-free calling from Pleasant Grove as far north as Murray, Holladay and Park City, east to Heber and south to Payson. The new service ser-vice does not permit incoming calls to be dialed toll-free, Hymas Hy-mas explained. Engineering studies are presently pres-ently underway to determine how much additional equipment equip-ment is needed to provide Metropac. Met-ropac. While rates for the new service ser-vice will not be definitely determined de-termined until all studies are completed, present indications are that an additional monthly charge of $12.90 for a business service, $4.80 for a one-party residence, and $4.15 for a two-party two-party residence line will be made for Metropac toll-free calling. In addition to Metropac, local lo-cal calling will be extended in early 1972 to include Orem in the Pleasant Grove calling area This service will be provided to all customers in the Pleasant Grove and Orem areas. With the establishment of local lo-cal service between Orem and Pleasant Grove, plans call for Pleasant Grove basic rates to increase 20 cents per month for two-party service, 25 cents for individual residence customers and $1.20 per month for a business bus-iness line. |