It can cost more to phone a town 30 miles from your home
than one 3000 miles away, but there is an easy way to cut this
part of your bill. "The average household could save $80 or
more a year," says Rick Doble, editor of SAVVY-DISCOUNTS.com
NEWSLETTER a national money-saving publication in Smyrna,
North Carolina. "People who make a lot of these calls might
save hundreds of dollars," adds Doble.
Rates for long distance calls close to home are often
controlled by the local phone company whose prices may be
higher than a long distance carrier. The geographic area
controlled by the local phone company is called a "LATA" and
usually explained at the beginning of the phone book.
By learning to dial the "access code" of your long
distance carrier before dialing a "local long distance"
number, the charge for these calls might be sliced 50% or
more. That's because the call will then be billed to the long
distance company not the local phone company. (In some areas
of the country this may not work.)
For example, MCI customers would first dial the access
code 10-10-222 to bypass the local company and route the call to
MCI. Then they would simply dial the number as usual. Each
long distance company has its own access code, such as 10-10-288
for AT&T and 10-10-333 for Sprint. To find out the exact costs and
possible savings, contact both your local and long distance
phone companies for the rates to specific towns at certain
times.
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