TELEPHONE CHARGES.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —The rates for business phones xre possibly not excessive, but those for private phones, especially in the suburbs, are extortionate. My house phone does not have one tenth of the ;all= that are made on my office one, yet the rental for it is more. It should be possible to charge more equitable rates on private phones. Every user of telephones is a sufferer from the slackness of the operators, but few, I think realise to what an extent they suffer. A tally of my private phone for May shows a total of 00 calls received. Oi these 27 were wrong numbers, and on seven occasions no response was received when calls were answered. This shows over 33 per cent of waste. Of course my experience may not be the average, but if it is, then the Postal Department, unlike the Railway Department, can scarcely claim to have "nothing to learn."—l am, etc., AD REM.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 132, 5 June 1923, Page 3
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