Minimum Call Charges

EDM number 450 in 1998-99, proposed by Harry Barnes on 18/03/1999.

That this House believes that people's telephone bills are unnecessarily high due to the practice adopted by telephone companies of imposing minimum charges for calls that might only last seconds when a caller reaches voicemail or an answerphone, send a short fax or tries but fails to connect to the Internet or just talks briefly on the phone; and urges British Telecom and other telephone companies, which make hugh profits, to scrap minimum call charges and only charge the consumer for the time actually spent on calls.

This motion has been signed by a total of 36 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.