More residential measured rate savings
For the second month since I instituted measured service on my residential line, I have saved $7.00. And I haven’t changed my local calling behavior to any appreciable degree. The only calling pattern that would even remotely put the savings at risk is my better half extended talking on the phone to her friend — who lives across the street. But even that isn’t impacting the monthly bill. Interesting that the only calls on the radar are to a destination less than 200 feet feet away.
What now strikes me about my “new bill” is that 46% is tax. 46 cents out of every dollar on my bill goes to something other than the service for which I pay.
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