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Letter: Letters : Free calls

Published 7 June 1997

From Jonathan Buzzard

Prudhoe, Northumberland

You presume that a British school connecting up to the Internet will need to
make a local telephone call for the connection
(Feedback, 10 May, p 92). But any
realistic approach would use dedicated lines, and so be free of call
charges.

I am a not a Labour Party supporter, so this is not a biased answer, but the
Labour plan is to allow BT into the cable television market (which is a good
thing as it will bring competition into a market where there is none). In
return, BT will provide all schools and libraries with dedicated lines free of
charge.

Issue no. 2085 published 7 June 1997

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