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Those MCI prepaid calling cards - $19.95 for 700 minutes of phone time - at Costco warehouses in Alaska, are gone forever.
But business consumers and others who have come to rely on them for cheap telephone communications should not fear. According to Tim Farmer, vice president of merchandising for the national warehouse giant, Costco is negotiating with another company and expects to be offering a new phone card deal within two months.
Costco pulled the MCI cards from its shelves the last week of September after card users dialing a toll free number to place their calls started receiving a recorded message, saying the cost of in-state calls will rise to 35 cents a minute on Nov. 1. The MCI calling card program is owned by Verizon Communications.
"MCI was losing its shirt on those cards," said Verizon's...