I have read interviews and analyses where AT&T admits that if you really spend half the month roaming on non-AT&T systems they will lose money on you. However, the relatively small number of people who actually do that in a given month is more than counterbalanced by all the people whose low usage would (otherwise have) cost them much less than $89 in the same month.

Although I consider myself immune to telephone marketing hype, and routinely deconstruct and dissect all claims, to figure out what I am actually getting and its real value, I was unable to find anything significantly wrong (for me) with the Digital One Rate program. That's still true 10 months later. (And the consolidated bill is something I begged them to provide 3 years earlier.) I just wish they would fix their coverage and system problems in New York (where there has been at least one TOTAL SYSTEM OUTAGE during the past year).


[This message has been edited by RichG (edited 09-25-1999).]