The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-05
5 CENT PHONE
RATE ASSURED:
$2,7OO,O00CUT
In Most Remote Points Of
Greater City Only Will
Rate Be 10 Cents.
VIRTUAL AGREEMENT
REACHED At HEARING

The New York Telephone Company
and the upstate Public Service Com
mission came to "a virtual agreement yes
terday on telephone rates The COM
pany submitted schedule OF new rates,
which will ca, IT, revenues s2.7o0,oo0
at once. and approximately this schedule,
with perhaps n few notifications. viii
probably be ordered. to become effective
In Greater Sew York on July next and
10 remain unchanged for three years.
Tho reduction will amount to more 'han
$4,000 600 soon. It was said
Among the more mterestlns features
OF the new rate propositions are the'
Between Xour~ /. =, and ., districts
comprising Manhattan, the lower part
OF The Bronx and all Of the thickly IN
hab!ted part of Brooklyn along the East
River from Astoria to Couey Island.
there is To De nat rate Of five cents,
with all tolls abolished. That g. 10 say
q person may telephone from Fordham
TO Coney Island or from Times Square
- the GuSAW.ck section OF ki1oklyn
for i've cents
The only 10 cent rate from Manhat-
.au below llotu .trr" viii br to Tot
t,nv,le aui Far Rockaway. Zones !"
and respectively. There will be
20 cent rate f.ou other zones than Zone
! Manhattan between widely sepa-
rated zones. such as between Westches-
ter and Tcttenvine These are general
indicati, ms Of the lesseued rate.
Indi> iduaI Lines.
The minimum rate for individual line
business and residence service In Man
haitian and Irooklyn !s to be reduced
from $IS for 500 messages to Si2 for
sac messages additional messages from
s4o &, Loo are ! cents each, from
l20U 10 2.i0V. cents each from 2,4Vo
to $500. 3 cents eIch, and above $500
"A D.T low price per message OF 2l3
cents is proposed
Two party line measured service =
made ava liable IN these zones for resi-
deuce service. starting At s@b for go
messages. as compared with the present
undiscouuted rate OF ji2 for 500 mes
sagcs.
-Four party residence service. start
ing At $50 Tor bUo messages, is made
available in The Bronx ana Brooklyn
II Is designed To- supr.sede the present
rate OF S3s for 500 messages. 'r'he
present rates for unlimited residenc"
service tpply.uE in brooklyn are con
tiuutd under the new plan, 40 tht'
the residence subs ribers viii have tn"
option " selecting tn. unlimited rates
with m" present local areas Or IN"
measured rates with the enlarged
i areas prNp'sed.
For private branch exchange ser.
vice The minimum rate has ben made
sl32 for switchboard, two stations,
one trunk and 2,400 local messages.
as compared with the present mini
mum rate of s2Oi fyr $500 messages
and two trunks. The proposed sta
tion rate undor private branch ex-
change contracts IS 81 for the hrs'
ten. sisO for the second ten and $3.50
FOR all stations above twenty con-
nected with one system.
choice Between services.
Subscribe = in upper Bronx, outly-
Ing Queens and staten Island are given
the choice between measured serNic" AT
136 per yea" for ,20 messages or their
pr,3eut unlinltc cd ne ghborhood Hat rate
service.
The commiss on gave the publ" untu
Tuesday Ia make further suggestions
about new rates. II viii probably hold
no further public hearings. hnt after
private discussion ISSUE IT. order
WHon Yesterdays hearing opened John
l. SwnyY-. general counsel for 'he tele-
phone company said;
81 am author red to propose the fol-
loving adjustment
In the very complex and difficult SIT
uatluu which now exists rs to the New
York city telephone rates the companys
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