Telex costs decreased
PA Wellington The cost of telex messages will be reduced from November 1, the Postmaster-Gen-eral (Mr Cooper) announced yesterday. In regulations gazetted yesterday the Government provides for a reduction in the telex call charge to 4c for six seconds. The charge was 5.625 c.
Mr Cooper also announced the introduction of a new switched data service, to be known as Datex. The call charge will be the same as for telex. It will interchange data at high speeds, and is particularly applicable to computer use.
Reductions are also announced for loudspeaking
telephones (down from $4l per two months to $25) and for some repertory dialling units (down from $24 per two months to $l6). A new series of all-elec-tronic small business telephone systems would be introduced, said Mr Cooper. These would provide a number of new facilities for businessmen needing 12 to 24 extension telephones and are the latest in microprocessorcontrolled switching systems. The reductions in telex charges and other equipment charges were a direct result of improved and more efficient technology and it was appropriate that such cost savings should be passed on to customers, Mr Cooper said.
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