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By HAL NEWELL
Staff writ*
USC tclcohones were amonx
the first in the Columbia area to
benefit from equal access last
June when Southern Bell alowed
customers to use any available
long-distance company with
equal ease.
"Equal access gives the
customer the opportunity to get
to any long distance company
serving their area on an equal
basis," said Don Caughman,
public relations manager of
Southern Beil in the Columbia
area. "By dialing the same
number of digits, they can get
any long-distance company."
Equal access is part of
deregulation that began with the
breakup of American Telephone
& Telegraph at the start of 1984
under the guidance of federal
Judge Harold Greene.
AT&T had an advantage
before equal access because they
were already wired into the
telephone system, allowing
customers to use their service by
simply dialing 1 before the area
code and number.
Customers of other longdistance
companies had to dial
more digits to complete their call.
"As various switching offices
are converted, three months
ahead of time, every customer
served by a particular switching
office will receive a ballot,"
Caughman said.
"It has all of the long distance
carriers that serve a particular
area, and there s a little description
of each company.
"The customer is asked to pick
one of these companies as their
long-distance carrier."
Customers who don't choose a
long-distance company will be
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When equal access began in I
other parts of the country, those ;
who did not choose a company
remained with AT&T by default,
but the Federal Communications
Commission thoucht this unfair
to other companies and implemented
the allocation process.
Some South Carolina
customers assumed they would
remain with AT&T if they did not
make a choice, and have been
surprised when assigned to
another company, said Joe
Jones, public relations manager
for the state Public Service '
Commission.
"I have no feeling for the
number of times this has happened,
but it has happened, and it
has brought some misunderstan- ?
ding and hard feeling," Jones
said.
Those who are assigned a company
will have another chance to
choosc, Caughman said.
"They would be arbitrarily
assigned a long-distance company
as their primary carrier, but
then would be given the option
after that of still picking a different
company if they didn't like
the one they were assigned to,
Caughman said. (
"The purpose of the whole
thing, as I see it ? and this is
something that the FCC has
pushed ? is to make sure that no
long-distance company gets
business by default; that every
customer actually is pushed to
make a choice, to try to put into
effect the full benefits of competition
in long-distance."
In the Columbia area, four or
five long-distance companies are
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and students say.
"The mall could take business away
McDaniel, the manager of the Happj
McDaniel said she is opposed to t
campus. "I think the university is in tl
retail business," she said.
Clothes Encounter manager Gary !
business for everyone.
"The mall is for convenience to a
don't think it will make a big diffei
downtown stores that serve Carolina
Louisa Neher, manager of Five P
don't think it will affect our business
mter fo different tastes."
The small size and high price of spa
a problem for the new clothing stor<
owner of Reflex on Assembly Street.
"If they have what students want,
he said. "But it is hard to conceive
square footage because there i:
merchandise."
Mosely thinks the new store will ha
"We do vei y well with Carolina stud
and growing. I don't see how anythi
Clothes Encounter may or may n<
students. "1 don't know how good ii
Sarah Martin saia. "its ciosea ever;
"I don't think they will do so well,
"They have some good Carolina me
shop at a mall with more variety."
Location is the main reason for o
according to merchants. "We're cor
of^Gamecock Travel. "We providi
travelers, and we do research for th
The travel agency sells airline and
tals and hotel reservations and org
trips.
"We want to find out what the stu
"We are here to help faculty and stu
The "great location" is why Scl
opened in the mall, according to mai
"It's a very lucrative place for a rec
Eye carc is also a needed service,
Contact Lens Clinic. "Many studen
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tacts or glasses."
The clinic offers eye examination;
tacts and glasses, McClay said.
Another convenient service for s
Having a store based on campus is ai
ding to branch manager Ann Fitzpa
Services include regular and sa:
"fluff and fold laundry, starching
alterations, she said.
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Stiffel thinks there is enough
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students."
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they will do good business,"
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rchandise, but 1 would rather
pening a business in the mall,
ivenient," said Sheryl Redfern
c every service for university
e lowest fares."
Amtrak tickcts, makes car rcn[anizes
cruises and group bus
idents' interests are," she said.
idents with their travel plans."
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lager Catherine Stuart-Bowen.
:ora store, sne saia.
said Dr. Mike McClay of the
ts have no transportation and
jy may lose or break their con>
and sells all varieties of contudents
is Sunshine Cleaners? a
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me-day service dry cleaning,
for shirts and jeans and minor
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Nobody knows better than we
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family, not just the cancer patient. ^
Among uui leguiai services
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Life is what concerns us. The
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