Next Generation Communications would like to advise its Verizon customers as of 7/1/10 Verizon plans to discontinue providing post-paid Calling Card service to its local exchange and long distance residential and small business customers. As of this date, calls will no longer be completed in all fifty states and the District of Columbia using Verizon local and long distance calling cards. Effective immediately, any changes made to your account may also deactivate the calling card services.

Next Generation Communications would like to advise its Verizon customers effective with your March bill, Verizon will collect a monthly fee of $1.47 per telephone line for business dial tone line customers, $1.47 per system for ISDN Basic Rate Interface, $7.35 per port for ISDN Primary Rate Interface customers and $35.28 per port for Flexpath customers. These fees are intended to help defray the cost of a new local property tax that Massachusetts cities and towns now levy on Verizon’s telephone poles and wires located on public property. State law permits, but does not require Verizon to pass along this new local tax.