Phone-charge system to stay—-P.O.
PA Wellington The Post Office has no plans to sustitute the present telephone rental system with one charging for every local call, says the Director-General of the Post Office, Mr Pat Mclnerney.
He told NZPA yesterday that the call charge system used in some countries would benefit people who did not use their telephones much, but it was not practical to substitute it for the present system used in New Zealand. “It (the unlimited system) is so totally entrenched in New Zealand’s way of life that I don’t think we could take it out after all these years. “The only possibility of
change is with new technology to give people a choice of different rentals with different amounts of free calling:’ ...
Mr Mclnerney said the Post Office was keeping a “watching brief’ on developments in computer equipment needed for recording calls.
“Present exchanges could be ‘enhanced’ to do this but we are not actively seeking the equipment,” he said. Unlimited, or “free,” telephone calls were paid for through cross subsidies from the profits of other Post Office services.
“The only cross subsidy is for local calls. They are not really free, they have to be paid for and they are subsidised by other services.”
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