Com Systems Develops New Telephone Service

Com Systems, a Westlake Village provider of long-distance telephone services, has launched a new plan, Century, which the company claims offers savings to small and medium-sized businesses.

Under the plan, long-distance calls placed at any time to any points within the continental United States are billed at a single flat rate of 14 3/4 cents per minute. The charges are made in six-second increments rather than being rounded upward to one-minute increments as is usually done in the industry, the company said.

James D. Groesbeck, Com Systems’ vice president of marketing, said that in addition to offering reduced rates, Century is designed to make long-distance services “easy to contrast with the price and value claims being touted daily” in the highly competitive long-distance market. He said the plan has been test-marketed in Arizona, Utah and Nevada.

Com Systems is a subsidiary of Resurgens Communications Group Inc., an Atlanta company whose shares are traded on the American Stock Exchange.