21. Domestic long-distance rates are set at Rp 108 a pulse. 22. Long-distance rates , which had been falling for decades, dropped faster. 23. The government said it wants long-distance rates cut 10 percent. 24. Telmex has subsidized Mexico's local telephone service with high long distance rates for years. 25. He also said the company is lowering its long-distance rates at the same time. 26. The national and international long distance rates were not raised from their present levels. 27. In Britain, for example, long-distance rates are less than half what they were in 1983. 28. Long-distance rates , meanwhile, fell due both to the end of this subsidy and increased competition. 29. This is the first big long-distance rate cut for the average consumer in many years, 30. Long-distance rates , the price of calls from one service area to another, are not changing.