After a year of work, a committee of Undergraduate Council members and University Information Systems (UIS) officials announced yesterday a new phone service system which will lower long-distance rates for all students and offer another pricing option.
Under the most popular plan, evening and weekend rates were each cut by two cents a minute--evening calls will cost 10 cents per minute and weekend rates fell to nine cents. Calls during the day are still 25 cents per minute.
A second plan available to students offers a flat rate of 12 cents a minute as opposed to last year's 15.
"It's very similar to what other long-distance providers are offering now," said Nancy M. Kinchla, director of telecommunications for UIS.
AT&T, for example, offers one plan with a 10 cent flat rate and another with per-minute rates of 26 cents during the day, 16 at night and 11.5 on weekends.
The task force also came up with a "plan C," offering a rate of 8 cents per minute any time of the day. But there's a catch--plan C has a monthly fee of $5.95.
"I hope the right students go for it," Kinchla said. "The students who should select that should make a lot of calls."
Students making three or four hours of long-distance calls a month, Kinchla says, would see smaller bills with the new plan.
The UIS-council task force, which consisted of eight members, formed last year in response to student complaints.
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