MCI's The Neighborhood Clarification

I just got off of the phone talking to my Mom, and there might be some confusion out there about the MCI The Neighborhood plan. It is NOT just a long distance plan. It is also your local phone service. You will NOT have to pay anything to SBC, Ameritech, etc. Your ONLY phone charge will be to MCI for $49.99. That covers your local phone service, all of your long distance usage, caller ID, three way calling, voice mail, call waiting, etc.

One bit of clarification, the $49.99 does not include local, state, and federal taxes, and it does not include the $6 that MCI has to pay to SBC to lease line access. You may have read in the news about how SBC is complaining to the feds in the FCC that the amount that MCI, ATT, etc pay to lease lines for local service is below their cost. Well that’s what this $6 is for.

So, it would actually be more accurate to say the service is $55.99 plus taxes.

Please let me know if you have any questions.