Telephone Regulations
New telepbonts regulations and scale of charges arc gazetted, to come into force on April Ist. The department now takes the power to refuse to connect anyplace used for illegal, immoral, or improper put poses ; and the new regulations .provide against strangers being allowed to use. the telephone. 'Ihe rates are raised to £7 fcr business and £o for private h uses, where the exchange is open continuously, and .£5 ■where only op<-n during fixe' "flours. The additional charge for mileage is altered from £1 per mile or a fraction thereof to 10-- per quarter-mile or fraction. When any connection is over a,mile, the applicant wil! be required to hold it for three years. For connections over three milqs, subscribers will be; required to pay *or the erection of an additional line, and &l for each quarter-mile •a maintenance. ■a* ■ •
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Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8621, 27 March 1897, Page 4
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142Telephone Regulations Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8621, 27 March 1897, Page 4
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