CUB's "Right Call" Campaign Comes To Peoria To Slash Bloated Phone Bills
CHICAGO, June 16, 2009—Due to popular demand, the Citizens Utility Board (CUB) is coming back to the Peoria area for a third time this year to hold a free clinic that can show consumers how to battle the bad economy by making deep cuts in their phone bills.

Contact:
For more information call
Jim Chilsen at 312-263-4282 (office) or 312-513-1784 (cell).
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In the previous two clinics, CUB showed consumers how to cut their phone bills by an average of about $200 a year. The Peoria-area events have proven so popular that CUB is being invited back a third time as part of its 25th Anniversary “Right Call Campaign.”

The next “phone-bill clinic,” sponsored by State Sen. Dale E. Risinger, is:

11 a.m., Tuesday, June 30
Illinois Central College Auditorium
5407 N. University
Peoria


The “Right Call Campaign” was launched after CUB released a report showing that Illinois callers are overpaying on their phone bills by about $1.5 billion a year. The good news is it’s relatively simple to cut calling costs.

Consumers frequently complain that they can’t get reliable information from the phone company, which often just throws them a sales pitch for a more expensive plan. At CUB’s clinics, however, citizens will receive helpful tips about:

CUB Cellphone Saver—a state-of-the art online tool that automatically analyzes individual wireless bills, potentially cutting a caller’s costs by hundreds of dollars a year.
The new CUB-designed Consumer’s Choice local-calling plans that AT&T is forced to offer under a legal settlement. Unlike AT&T’s other plans, these plans are designed to save most consumers money.
Illinois’ best long-distance plans, including how to get an automatic $20 credit CUB negotiated. That amounts to nearly 11 hours of free calls.
Line-Backer, a costly—and optional—AT&T service that most people don’t need.
Attendees should bring their phone bills so CUB experts can analyze them and give tips on how to cut them.

CUB is Illinois’ leading nonprofit utility watchdog organization. It was created by the Illinois legislature in 1983 to represent the interests of residential and small-business utility customers. Since then, CUB has saved consumers more than $10 billion by helping to block rate hikes and secure refunds. For more information, call CUB’s Consumer Hotline at 1-800-669-5556.