LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT - YOU ARE DECREASING PRICES FOR THE HOLIDAYS?

AAFES and AT&T reduce the cost for phone calls from Iraq for the Christmas period.

Cool.

In conjunction with AT&T, McDonald said AAFES wanted to give customers a holiday bonus by further cutting prices, dropping the per-minute fees assessed against the prepaid cards.

Troops calling family and friends from a designated phone center in Iraq will pay 25 cents a minute during the holidays instead of 32 cents.

Likewise, the per-minute fee for satellite calls has changed, dropping from 76 to 63 cents.

“Calls to home during this time of the year are critical to the morale of America’s servicemembers,” Mike Westphal, a senior vice president in Dallas, was quoted as saying in an AAFES news release.

“By offering a lower price, AAFES and AT&T hope that servicemembers will find it much easier and more convenient to contact all of their friends and family this holiday season.”