My roommate, who has had some dealings with local phone companies, contents that it is possible that New York Telephone is losing money on this deal. He claims that many local phone companies are collections of small agencies which are often very uncooperative with each other. This situation could easily lead to providing services that lose money. However, it is also possible the New York Telephone is making money on this service. Also a number of these calls may be initiated from business numbers during the day.
Businesses pay a higher rate for phone use.
By getting a larger distribution of long distance income. What we have here is a typical sleezy politician trying to make political hay out of a non-issue. As for his claim that the service was illegal even before the new law was enacted, he should cite a specific chapter and verse of the law. One might hope the voters in Virginia would see through this shallow publicity getting scheme, but I doubt most will. I hope my earlier remarks clarified this a little.