Telephone charges
Sir, — Mr Prebble’s reply to Angela Johnson (February 18) dodges the main question but says that “until large amounts of equipment have been purchased it will not be able to introduce a fairer method of charging for local calls.” Equipment to monitor those calls? Is that not an admission that separate charging is in view, and is the “fairness” bit not a sweet cover-up phrase? For a few, the rental might be cheaper (though not, evidently, if Telecom gets deregulated and competitors cream off the profitable operations) but our telephones will lose half their usefulness. No longer will we feel free to ask people to ring us back at more convenient times, etc., because the cost will go on their bills, not ours. We had better make more noise about this threat than we did about closing socially important post offices and Postßanks.— Yours, etc., ELSIE LOCKE. February 18, 1988.
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