§ Mr. THORNEasked the Postmaster-General if he is aware that exchange operators no longer advise telephone users making trunk calls that the three-minute time limit has expired; and, in view of the fact that telephone users, 540W ignorant of the fact that the time limit is up, are put to involuntary expense, he will issue instructions that the practice of intimating the expiry of the three minutes shall be resumed?
§ Sir K. WOODThe hon. Member has, apparently, been misinformed. Telephone operators are in fact instructed, on all calls charged for by time, to enter the circuit towards the end of each three-minute period and announce "three minutes," "six minutes," etc., as the case may be. The second part of the question does not, therefore, arise.