„ • 1 I I - • I a..taiLl%111..v.r.,72i, d=r14.:41:144;•Cr, I I I ' a • ! Friday, July 13, 1984 9 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS •• oughton • Marquette • Sault Ste. Marie “it lotta what?" Escanaba • "Did you know that you're in a LATAP • Traverse City Oscoda • • Cadillac • Clare Bay City • • Saginaw Grand Rapids • MICHIGAN LATAs 1. Upper Peninsula LATA. 2. Grand Rapids LATA. 3. Saginaw LATA. 4. Lansing IATA. 5. Detroit LATA. • Lansing Kalamazo. • • Battle Creek • Jackson All about LATAs, lonz_distance calling, and Michigan Bell discounts. LATA is a telephone term that's new to all of us. Explaining that IATA stands for Local Access 'fransport Area doesn't help much, but LATAs are really very simple. They're telephone service areas. There are five LATAs in which Michigan Bell provides telephone service. LATAs and long distance calling. Long distance discount periods. More long distance dikounts. Michigan Bell continues to offer discounts on direct- dialed long distance calls within each of the five LATAs. We suggest you save the chart below as a reminder of the times when you save 30% to 50% off the Day Full Rate. If you make a lot of direct-dialed long distance calls within 30 miles of your calling center and within your LATA, you may be interested in Circle Calling Service. By subscribing to this service, you get additional discount calling periods during which you can save 30% over the long Marie rates in effect at the time of your call. The discount applies even when regular long distance discounts are in effect. No installer visit is necessary for Circle Calling. We suggest you take a close look at the various Michigan Bell services available to you. At Michigan Bell, ive'reoalways ready to help in the selection of the service that's right for you. Facts down the line. We suggest that you watch for further informational messages in your newspapers and in your monthly telephone bills. Because your telephone business office is busily engaged in normal day-to-day telephone service matters, we are providing this toll-free number as a source for answers to the questions you may have , about your changing telephone company. NOTE: When you begin a call during one rate period, your call will be charged at that rate; however, should that call pass into a different rate period, your charges will change to the rate of the new period. For example, a weekday call that.begins 10 minutes before 5 pit. and ends 10 minutes after 5 p.m. will be billed at the full rate for the first 10 • minutes and Will be billed at the 30% discount rate for the last 10 minutes. If you look at the map, you will see the five Michigan LATAs, including the LATA you are in. Now here's how LATAs . work: When you place a long distance call from one LATA to another telephone number within the same LATA, Michigan Bell can carry the call for you over its own network. When you INNININommummwommuliolo place a call from one LATA to another LATA, either in Michigan or another state,it will be handled by the. Save up to 50% on direct dialed long digtance calls. Schedule for direct dialed long distance company that provides that service long distance calls within Michigan LATAs. to you (not Michigan Bell). For example, if you call from Detroit to Flint (two c i t ies within the same LATA), Michigan Bell I am will still be able•to handle the call as in the past. But 8 am if you call from Detroit to Traverse City (from a 5 pni pm city in one LATA to a city in a different LATA), a long distance company other than Michigan Bell will I carry the call. As you may know, there are now a 11 pm number of different companies you maYitoose from to provide your long distance service. - - Your long distance bill(s). 8 am 8 am 1 800 555-5000 IT'S AT&T WE'VE SEPARATED FROM... NOT YOU. When you receive your Michigan Bell telephone bill, *During the Evening Discount Period, you pay 30% less you'll find a page that lists your long distance than the Day Full Rate Charge•for direct-dialed calls calls handled by Michigan Bell. You may also find within each of the Michigan 1ATAs. another page that lists long distance calls handled by **During the Night and Weekend Discount Periods, you other companies. This is because Michigan Bell pay 50% less than the Day Full Rate Charge for direct- may provide billing services for other long distance dialed calls within each of the Michigan LATAs. companies. Or you may receive a separate long AN AMERITECH COMPANY CLIP AND SAVE distance bill directly from the company you've 1111111111•1111111111M1111111011111111111.1111MIIIIM11151. selected to handle your long distance calls. , , • Rates and conditions of service in effect April 28, 1984, are subject to change iiponIpprOial Oftheiticiiiialkibiic Service .... . . . Michigan Bell fazzi•••> ••••• •••••••••• •• ■ •■ ••••••- .■•■ .1. • -,,,r....orumim.dessacsaurmrrr•-r. " "