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Bedminster N.J. AT&T and MCI WorldCom are gearing up to go after frame relay business users who have many sites in a single local calling area. Their primary weapon: lower prices.
The two long-distance giants have disclosed that they are ready to install multiple frame relay sites in a single local access and transport area (LATA). In those locations the carriers will use new bundled prices for the port on the frame relay switch and the access line to each customer site.
The new prices are significantly less than what AT&T and MCI WorldCom ordinarily charge on the frame relay port for regional and national connections (see graphic). Until now, such so-called intra-LATA frame relay has been dominated by regional Bell operating companies, all of whose traffic must remain within a LATA. RBOCs have tended to offer relatively inexpensive frame relay to retailers, government agencies and others with many nodes to connect in a...