CUB To Talk On Cutting Phone Bills At New Lenox Public Library, Guidance Has Helped Consumers Save Hundreds Of Dollars A Year
CHICAGO, Sept. 2, 2010—The Citizens Utility Board (CUB) will give a talk at the New Lenox Public Library on how consumers can cut their phone bills by potentially hundreds of dollars a year.

Contact:
For more information call
Jim Chilsen at 312-263-4282 (office) or 312-513-1784 (cell).
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Illinois callers could be overpaying by a total of more than $1 billion a year—but most could enjoy big savings by making a few simple changes on their phone bills, according to CUB. The consumer group has shown phone customers how to make those changes through an award-winning website, www.CitizensUtilityBoard.org, and free events like the one planned in New Lenox. A CUB representative will speak at:

6:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 16
New Lenox Public Library District
120 Veterans Parkway
New Lenox


“Most people are paying too much for phone service, but CUB can help you deflate your bloated phone bill,” CUB Executive Director David Kolata said. “We’ve been showing consumers how to cut their phone bills by hundreds of dollars a year, and that’s good news in tough economic times.”

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 talk, however, citizens will receive helpful tips about:

The CUB Cellphone Saver—a state-of-the art online tool that automatically analyzes individual wireless bills. The Cellphone Saver, created by a Texas-based company called Validas, has been showing consumers how to cut their wireless bills by an average of more than $300 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 offers, these plans are designed to save most consumers money, and their prices are frozen until at least June of 2013.
Illinois’ best long-distance plans, including how to get an automatic $10 credit negotiated by CUB. That amounts to more than 5 hours of free calls.
Line-Backer, a costly—and optional—AT&T service that most people don’t need.


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.