Evening star., 1927-12-03
TELEPHONE RATES
IN COUNTY REVISED
Toll System on Calls Between
Montgomery and Capital
VIII Be Altered.

The Chesapeake & Potomac Tele
phone Co has completed plans for
new rates and improving telephone
service in Montgomery County. Md
which will be put into effect about
February |. when the new Bradley
exchange in Bethesda opens, 1t was
announced today by c. T. Clagett
general commercial superintendent.
The new rate schedules will elmi
nate the present toll charge on calls to
Washington from subscribers on the
new Bradley and Silver Spring eX'
cha ngeS and vice versa.
There will be two schedules of rates
available One is designed to meet the
needs of those subscribers whose pri
mary use of the service is to talk with
their ncighbors with an occasional de-
nand for service to Washington. This
schedule will carry a lower monthly
charge and is referred to as the
Maryland schedule"
The other scedule. a higher one, is
designed to meet the needs OF those
subscribers whose use for Washington
service is predominant. This is de
scribed as the metropolitan Sched
ule."
Under either the Maryland or the
Metropolitan schedules, all subscrib-
ers in the Bradley exchange area,
whether they now bear the designa-
ton of Bradley or Wisconsin. will be
entitled to call each other without toll
charge. The same condition will be
established as between subscribers
now bearing the designation of Silver
Spring and Shepherd.
On messages from Washington to
Maryland subscribers, whether the
latter are under the Maryland or
Metropolitan schedules, there will be
no toll charge.
The purpose of the Metropolitan
schedule according to Mr.. Clagett Is
to avoid a continuation of uneconom'
ical equipment extensions and at the
same time to offer an optional service
which has as it's feature the privilege
of calling Washington without toll
charge, and which further will not
limit the usefulness of the local eX-
change service.
Under the Maryland schedule there
will be no change IN the present rates
for local exchange service. The Met
ropolitan schedule will provide fiat
iate unlimited individual line tele-
rate individual line at $3.50 a month
for so calls. Calls in excess of that
number will be charged for according
to the usage. There also will be
two-Darty line message rate at 50
month for 40 calls, the excess to be
paid for according to the usage.
Subscribers under the Metropolitan
schedule will appear in the Washing
ton section of the telephone directory
as we'll as in the suburban section.
Many Places Benefit.
The improved service will embrace
Chevy Chase. Bethesda. Silver Spring,
Park and other communities
in Montgomery County adjacent to
the District. 1t was planned Mr.. Clag-
gett said. 70 overcome certain condi-
tions which brought about a serious
and unusual problem for the telephone
because of the practice of
serving Maryland telephones from
central offices located in the District.
1.-The lines required to connect these
telephones with the District of Co
lumbia central Office are excessively
ong and as the areas to be served have
increased in population and have be-
come more extended, the length of
these lines has correspondingly In
said Mr.. Clagett. These
long lines themselves not only add to
the cost of furnishing the service. but
the necessity of preserving satisfac-
tory transmission over the extended
lengths of the lines requires special
which further increases
the cost.
''The extension Of the District of
Columbia service into Maryland is
making inroads on the Maryland ex.
changes where local service is fur.
nished. The general effect of this Is
to reduce the usefulness of the local
service to the local subscribers