SBC announced new, lower priced calling plans for consumers and small businesses in California. Residential customers now can receive SBC Long Distance service for a flat 5 cents per minute, with no monthly fee, when bundled with local service. At the end of the one-year promotional period, the rate will change to 7 cents per minute. On the residential international calling front, the company has reduced prices of popular "buckets of minutes" plans to Mexico, added a new Asia "block of time" plan, and cut its International SaverPlus plan rate as well as the per-minute rates to the 30 most frequently called countries covered by the plan. For small- and mid-sized business customers, SBC is offering significantly discounted per-minute basic long distance rates for both in- and out-of-state calling depending on monthly spending and term commitments - such as 3.6 cents per minute with a $15 monthly spend and one-year term commitment.
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- SBC has signed up 1.3 million long distance customers in California in the first three months that it has been permitted to offer the service.
