The Winslow mail., 1926-10-01
Application to Review
Phone Charges Taken
Under Amusement

PHOENIX - Following the hear
ing of the application of the Noun
tain States Telephone and Tele-
graph company for authority to
readjust the long distance toll rates
in Arizona the matter was taken
under advisement by the corpora
ton commission. The hearing was
held Monday morning by Amos A.
Metts, member of the commission.
The telephone company was rep
resented at the hearing by H. D..
McVey, Arizona manager for the
company. No one appeared in pro-
test to the application although T..
Hall Barkley, of Glendale, was
present at the hearing as a repre-
sentative of the public. He made
no protest to the application.
Mr.. McVey stated at the opening
of the hearing that it was the de-
sire of the telephone company in
Arizona to make reduction in the
day long distance telephone tolls
and also to readjust the night
schedule of reductions by putting
into effect at 1880 o'clock at night
a rate of so per cent of the day rate
and to maintain that rate until 4:3O
O'Clock in the morning when the
day rate would become effective
again.
The proposed reductions, he stat
ed, were in effect now on inter-
state long distance calls or those
calls which were made to points
outside of the state. The proposed
reductions, he stated, would apply
only to station to station calls.
Under the present schedule, he
pointed out, the night rates on sta
ton to station calls become so per
cent of the day rates at $3.50 o'clock
and at midnight, rate of 35 per
cent of the day rate is put into eff
feet. This results, he said, in a
congestion in the use of the long
distance telephone, especially at
midnight, and often the lines are
so congested that many do not get
their calls through at all.
In order to relieve the conges-
ton, he pointed out, the company
proposes to make one reduction at
1880 o'clock which will prevail un-
til 4:30 the next morning. By re-
ducing the day rates, he explained,
the reduction at 1880 o'clock will
be lower than the present night
rate a 1880 o'clock and a few cents
higher in some instances than the
midnight rate at present.
Thin ,,ouT cohn1,1lo ho ctat06 will
it is believed by telephone officials,
result in spreading the night calls
throughout the night instead OF
congesting them at one period. 1t
also is hoped, he stated, that the
new schedule will result in more
station to station calls or number
to number calls instead of indivi-
dual calls. 1t costs, he explained,
about 2 IL times as much for the
telephone company to make a per-
son to person call or an individual
call as it does to make a station to
station call.
The decreases in the revenues re
sulting from the reduced day tolls
on station to station calls and the
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night rates on the same class OF
calls, he said, will result in a slight
increase in the revenues because
the expense of making such calls
will be less.
AS an example of the proposed
reductions, he explained that the
present day rate on long distance
station to station calls from Phoe-
nix to Chicago is 1920 and it is
proposed to make the day rate $3.50
and the night rate after 1870 one
half Of that or $465. Correspond
ing reductions are to be made in
all rates within and without the
state, he said.
At the close of the hearing, Com
Belts announced that the
matter would be taken under ad-
yisement by the commission.
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