...Representatives of rural telephone companies in the county will attend a hearing in Brainerd on the petition for reduction of telephone rates. The telephone companies will be required to submit a complete inventory of property and equipment.100 years ago...

20 years ago (1982) Brainerd residents are among the select few who can avoid upcoming telephone rate increases and possibly trim phone bills by as much as 50- percent by signing up for one of Northwestern Bell's new low-cost...

...today when temperatures dropped to 20 degrees below zero. 80 years ago (1925) Brainerd to face a proposed raise in telephone rates. Here is some of the scheduled rates. Individual line business $5.25 per month Individual line residence $2...

...County banquet last week. 30 years ago (1977) Northwestern Bell today announced plans to increase most of its local telephone rates by 18.5 percent effective Feb. 19, 1978. 40 years ago (1967) Fred Kellett, entertaining his 20th campaign...

...telecommunications plan includes a proposal to lower basic telephone rates for for residents and businesses in the Twin Cities...plan released Tuesday. It was unclear how much metro telephone rates would go down or rural rates would rise. In either...

...approaches and diminishes a company's opportunity to operate profitably. This bill will drastically increase residential telephone rates in hundreds of rural communities throughout Minnesota, including Brainerd, Baxter, and all the surrounding communities...

...Mayor Halsted did not take kindly to the ordinance passed at last night's meeting of the city council raising the telephone rate in the resident part of the city and that he had vetoed the same. --Compiled by Bob Turcotte

...5.95 per month to $9.95. Residential phone rates will not be going up. But the council approved a business telephone rate increase from $23 per month to $24.95 per month. Additionally, the council followed an advisory board recommendation...