Long-distance trade in obsidian probably gave the elite residents of Teotihuacán access to a wide variety of exotic good, as well as a relatively prosperous life.

黑曜石的长途贸易可能给特奥蒂瓦坎的精英居民提供了各种各样的异国商品，以及相对富裕的生活。

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Meanwhile, distance and voice-based pricing are going away too, so that before long many subscribers will probably pay a fixed monthly access fee for unlimited phone calls and data transfers.

同时，用打电话多少与距离远近订价的方式也会一去不复返，不久的将来许多电话用户很可能只需每月支付一笔额定的接入费，就可以无限制的打电话或传输数据了。

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They have cut the access fee long-distance providers pay to local phone companies.

他们削减了长途电话供应商向本地电话公司缴纳的使用费。

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MCI's dream of offering integrated long-distance, local and Internet access without having to pay the Baby Bells their current tariff of 45 cents out of every dollar of long-distance revenues.

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RBOCs to open their local monopolies to competitors in exchange for access to long-distance services.

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That task grew more difficult in May, when news broke that federal prosecutors were looking into allegations that MCI, since 1994 and be-fore merging into WorldCom, had be-gun illegally disguising long-distance calls as local ones to avoid paying the Bells millions of dollars in access fees--and continues to do so.

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