Telephone charges
Sir, —Mr Peter Giddens is to be congratulated for calling proposed charges for local telephone calls “an abomination.” Over the week-end we got a call from a woman organising a function for parents of new pupils at Boys’ High School. All sorts of commendable voluntary activity of that sort would be destroyed by charges for local calls (incidentally, I was also assured over the week-end that there was no connection between my son’s’ arrival and the headmaster’s decision to retire). Telecom might argue: Why should parents of teenagers who spend hours talking on the telephone in the evenings not be bankrupted by the infatuations and friendships of their offspring? Why should those without such handicaps not pay less? The main point is that we live in a democracy and there is no outcry among those who do not use their telephone very often for the existing system to be changed. — Yours, etc.,
MARK D. SADLER. February 15, 1988.
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