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By PATRICK JEAN
Money editor
The campus mailbox opens
early in the semester. Inside, the
envelope sits from Southern Bell.
There it is ? the "lame-duck"
Student Telephone Account
Number (STAN) card.
Some students begin to use this
card without realizing that they
don't have to keep it. Actually,
students have many long-distance
companies to choose from.
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UOV. MUUCI11N living uii-caiupus
(or Of0 can choose to use one of
the following long-distance companies:
American Telephone &
Telegraph Co., which
automatically assumes responsibility
for calls made through the
STAN system; Line One; U.S.
Sprint; MCI Telecommunications;
Telamarkcting Communications;
Southernnet Inc.;
and Telman Inc.
Linda Saad, director of univer
sity housing services, said her
organization provides a list of the
names of all on-campus students
and their post office box numbers
to Southern Bell through "some
sort of computer interlink."
From that list comes the STAN
cards, said Don Caughman,
public relations manager for
Southern Bell.
USC is designing its own longdistance
system to be in operation
by Jan. 1, said Charles Poole,
director of associated
technologies for computer services.
The university will contract
with one carrier to provide longdistance
service, he said, but
"many negotiations to decide
which company will get that contract
are still going on; we also
have to nail down the
technological side of such a
system."
Poole said once the system is in
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thine of the nast. "hut students
can still contract with any carrier
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seen, preliminary indications of
the rates (for our system) look
good, though."
Caughman said Southern Bell
has received complaints about
students' STAN numbers being
misused by other students,
although "any kind of longdistance
credit card should have
built-in security." He said he
wasn't sure how many students
have called to cancel their STAN
numbers.
Once students receive their
STAN cards in the mail, they are
noi iniormeti oy eitner soutnern
Bell or USC of the various longdistance
services available. "Information
in the front of the Columbia
phone directory explains
how to use the various longdistance
companies," Caughman
said. "It's a confusing line between
what is our responsibility
and what is the USC communications
department's
responsibility."
Ron Laughlin, public relations
manager for AT&T, said the
company has been around for
more than 100 years, since the
first telephone was installed at
USC. It used to own local
telephone companies as the majority
owner of the Bell Company
until "Ma Bell" was broken up in
January, 1984. Twenty three
separate local companies now run
local service, but AT&T remains
the leader in long-distance service,
he said.
AT&T bills in one-minute increments
and offers such programs
as "Reach Out South
Carolina," "Reach Out
America" and "Opportunity
Calling." In addition, there is the
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AT&T's long-distance rates
have dropped 20 percent since the B
Bell breakup, according to !
Laughlin. "There is something in | j
each local phone region called an
access charge which AT&T has to
pay. At one time, other com- j
panies didn't have to pay that
charge, but now they do. So
prices are very consistent between AT&T
companies now and getting Line 0
closer." U S. S
Line One, a division of MCI
Columbia-based Telecom- ?
munications Systems Inc., also Telatn
provides long-distance service. Telma
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AT&T, said spokesman Claudia I
Parncll. Unlike AT&T,
customers must first dial a local
access number, followed by the bills by I
long-distance number and a card an
special authorization code, she authorh
said. on camj
Students should take the extra fer volu
minute to dial those numbers, bills of
Parnell said, "because they can custome
save from five to 40 percent off 30, we'l
of what they would pay to bill for
AT&T." The company also of- MCI
fers an 8 percent discount for which h
total calls over $100 per month vice sir
and has a travel card which largest c
allows customers to make long- AT&T,
distance calls from anywhere in Tollesoi
the country, she said. public
U.S. Sprint is a new name on Southea
the block. The company was cent of
formed on July 1 as a merger of serve
GTE Sprint and U.S. Telecom- custome
munications, two separate long- MCI':
distance carriers. The merger has below ti
created the lowest-priced carrier compan
in the country, according to Steve counts
Dykes, manager of public rela- month ?
tions for the southeast division. of free 1<
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discounts starting at
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a whole year."
Telecommunications,
as offered residential serice
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bills by the minute, offers a travi
card and requires the use of loci
access and authorization coc
numbers for on-campu
customers.
Telamarketing Communia
tions began offering Ion*
distance service in 1983, acco
ding to Lauren Fritz, a US
graduate and account executivi
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increments and offers savings c
"ten to 20 percent off of AT&T
rates, depending on the amoui
of calls you make," she said.
Telman Inc., which bcga
long-distance service in 198.
provides a travel card an
customers must dial local acce<
and authorization numbers, sai
Allena Gibson, account e)
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20 to 25 percent off what they'
pay with AT&T. We also off<
volume discounts beginning i
bills of $25."
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students must have one."
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of "Touch 'n' Save," the
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c- use the STAN card and AT&T,
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d are seven local long-distance car;r
riers to choose from. The best
it idea is to call each company, ^
compare rates and services, and
te choose the best of the bunch.
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