Posted AT 3:23 AM EST on 15/09/08
Price wars fail to erupt as bundles proliferate
There was good news and bad news for customers of
Bell Canada last month. For households with a phone line and one other Bell service, the phone rate fell 10 per cent. For those buying only a basic home phone connection and nothing else, prices went up 15 per cent.
Welcome to the abstruse world of telephone pricing.
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