Telephone Optical Calling Plans as Commodity Options (NOT KNOWN IF TALK GIVEN BECAUSE AUTHOR HAS LEFT AT&T)

Optical Calling Plans (OCPs) such as AT&T's Reach Out (R), offer discounts on toll calls in exchange for the payments of a monthly fee, OCP tariffs consist of this flat monthly charge, and usage-dependent part specified by one more marginal per-minute prices, which represent discounts off the basic tariff. Thus, savings are contingent on usage (or expenditure) during a given billing cycle.