Clause 34 - Fixing of charges
Communications Bill
11:30 am
Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby, Conservative)
I have to say that I do not know a great deal about hard-wired telephones, but I am concerned to discover that 3 million people still rent their telephones—largely, I suspect, from BT. They are likely to be elderly people, who may not have realised that they could buy their telephone, paying for it out of the annual rental. I am not in favour of a nanny
state, but is there some way to lead such people to understand that they might not be getting a good commercial deal?