| | ICCT: SBC Rate-Hike Forces Illinois Competitors to Raise Prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | SBC's own residential customers are already paying significantly higher retail prices for a number of popular local services including 'Saver Pack 60', 'Saver Pack 500' and all 'Local Toll' calls. |
 | | That's because SBC quietly raised retail rates on its customers recently, knowing competitors would soon be forced to raise their rates to compensate for the wholesale rate-hike." The ICCT works to promote public policies that create and sustain a more competitive telecommunications industry in Illinois. |
 | | The coalition is comprised of 4,500 Illinois consumers, small and large businesses, telecommunications providers, Internet and computer service providers, and many other companies in diverse industries seeking to end monopoly control of Illinois' local phone market. |
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