Commonwealth Calls (Charges)

HC Deb 22 January 1963 vol 670 c14

14. Mr. B. Harrison

asked the Postmaster General how it is intended to charge for telephone calls on the new Commonwealth cable.

Mr. Bevins

No change is proposed in the present charges to subscribers in this country for telephone calls to Commonwealth countries.

Mr. B. Harrison

May I take it that this welcome Reply means that there will be a uniform charge between the different capitals of the Commonwealth, whether a call is by cable or by radiotelephone?

Mr. Bevins

I do not think that that necessarily follows, but I can say to my hon. Friend that, generally speaking, the cost of calls from the United Kingdom to Commonwealth countries is at present, and will remain, on the whole lower than the cost of calls in the opposite direction.