Communications is already proving itself capable of rapid productivity growth and price cuts; witness the nickel-per-minute long distance rate, coming to a phone near you.
For $105 a month you get 600 wireless minutes, 150 hours of Internet access and the right to dime-a-minute long distance for your calls on your home phone or using your calling card.
In its Phone Booth section, for example, Tellme offers new users a free, two-minute long-distance call.
Offers unlimited local and long-distance calling for $35 a month plus tax; a 500-minute long-distance plan, plus unlimited local calling, is $25.
Analysts said customers choosing one of SBC's basic plans could save money because the average per-minute long-distance charge in Texas is more than 20 cents a minute.
BEST BUY CO., Eden Prairie, Minn., the United States' largest electronics retailer, agreed with GTC Telecom Corp., Costa Mesa, Calif., a long distance carrier, to market GTC's 5-cent-a-minute long-distance rate plan in more than 400 retail stores.
If you're willing to put up with a brief ad, Tellme will give you a two-minute long-distance domestic call for free.
Next month Nacchio will expand his 7.5- cents-a-minute long-distance-by-Internet service to 120 cities from 8. What of Anschutz's pattern of building — then selling — an asset?
And in fact Verizon's per-minute long-distance prices in New York are right in line with AT&T's, WorldCom's and Sprint's about 8 to 10 cents a minute.
A WireFly user can enter detailed wireless information total number of minutes per month as well as percentages of anytime minutes, night and weekend minutes, long-distance and roaming and have the software spit out the least expensive matches.
