
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 19, 1991                   TAG: 9103190099
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

MCI DISCOUNTS CALLS TO FRIENDS, FAMILY

MCI Communications Corp., the nation's second-largest long-distance phone company, on Monday announced a discount plan that cuts telephone rates by 20 percent to the people a customer calls the most, as long as they also are MCI customers. The plan is called Friends & Family.

Under the plan, customers will call or mail to MCI a list of up to 12 people they call frequently. If those people are not MCI customers, the customer has the option of asking those people to switch to MCI or letting MCI do the asking.

Industry analysts said the plan was innovative and should help MCI in its battle with an increasingly aggressive American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the largest long-distance carrier, and No. 3 U.S. Sprint. - Associated Press

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