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Article: Local calling plans lose luster with nationwide operators.
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- RCR Wireless News
- Article date:
- May 30, 2005
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Byline: DAN MEYER
Once the bread and butter of wireless carriers, local calling plans are now often afforded left-over status by an industry that is rapidly growing out its networks and seeing an increasing number of customers selecting nationwide calling plans. Those nationwide plans often trade incremental value for greater cost certainty of no roaming or long-distance charges.
"Customers are gravitating more toward nationwide plans,'' said Current Analysis senior analyst Weston Henderek. "Not so much because they are traveling more or because they are placing more long-distance calls, but more because they like not having to worry about the times if ...