WHEREAS

AND WHEREAS

a a NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the

long distance charges are used to subsidize

local exchange rates and residents of smaller

communities must, of necessity, utilize long

distance for satisfaction of many basic and
social needs, thereby subsidizing the larger

communities local telephone rates;

the British Columbia Telephone Company’s present
policy of Providing service ona one Way »
point~to-point, basis does not provide for fair
and equitable telephone service at a reasonable
rate throughout the whole of British Columbia,

particularly in comparison with the Alberta

Government Telephone Company’s Extended Flat

Rate Calling Programme ;

U.B.C.M. petition
both the British Columbia Telephone Company and

the C.R.T.C. to revise the Extended Area Service

Policy to allow toll free two way calling, with

weighting factors in line with those presently

used in Alberta.