Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-09-22
issued: 1979-07-25
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note: B.C. TEL IGNORES REFERENDUM RESULTS legislative Library, Vio'tca-is, W lXif Jan 80 under foot ' By RUDY UNGMANN ALDERGROVE - There will be no extension of the toll free callllng area of B.C. Tel's Aldergrove exchange,, the telephone company announced this week; In spite of « B.C. Tell conducted customer referendum held in the early spring of 1977, which resulted in a majority vote in favor of Including Aldergrove In the Greater' Vancouver toll free calling area, there will be no changes made in the 856- exchange calling pattern. Telephone subscribers in this area can now call Langley and Abbotsford - an area within a 10-mile radius - toll, free and it will remain that way. , In a letter to Langley district mayor George Driediger, B.C. Tel customer service manager Frank Bogle.says the company "realize and regret that this decision has been somewhat delayed." Two and one half years have passed since the people of Aldergrove voted in favor of extended service In return for higher monthly rates. Bogle adds that "at the time of the referendum, our company identified that the cost of extending the Aldergrove telephone office free calling area was extremely high. Together with our regulator, The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, we questioned whether it would be fair and equitable to all other telephone customers to proceed, with the Aldergrove free calling area extension due to the very hig capital costs involved." According to inter office memos passed between B.C. Tel and 'the CRTC in the months immediately following the referendum, the telephone com-, pany did their utmost to convince their governing body that they could not afford to 'go through with the scheme any-, how. It would cost B.C. Tel Sl'/j-million a year, company officials claimed. The strange part about it was that two-thirds of this projected deficit or Sl-million, would be derived from a "loss1, of current long distance revenue in jjj the Aldergrove area. It thus appears that t…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Aldergrove Herald (1957-10-16 to 1958-02-20), Aldergrove News (1958-02-27 to 1964-04-30), Central Fraser Valley Echo (1964-05-06 to 1964-12-23), Central Fraser Valley Star (1967-01-17 to 1969-02-05), and Aldergrove Star (1969-02-12 to 1991-12-31). Presented to the Alder Grove Heritage Society by Kurt Langmann and Family, July 1, 2021.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Aldergrove (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0420815
language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Aldergrove : Central Fraser Valley Star Publishing Ltd.
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source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
type: Text