AT&T; filed to make WATS pricing more flexible.
The company asked the Federal Communications Commission to let it offer two alternatives to present Wide Area Telephone and 800 services, both to make pricing more flexible and to increase savings potential for high-volume customers--those that log at least 1,000 hours of telephone use a month at a single location. AT&T; also urged the FCC to reject a request by four competitors seeking to slow deregulation of the long-distance industry to ensure that competition is not inhibited by AT&T;’s dominance.
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