Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: [unknown]
issued: 2022-12-10
issued: 1989-06-08
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/alderstar/items/1.0422002/source.json
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note: SAYS COUNCILOR OF BC TEL OFFER CIRCULATION: 9,000 COPIES 'A bad deal' By RUDY LANGMANN ALDERGROVE - This town is getting a "bad deal" from B.C. Tel, says township Aid. John Scholtens. Last year, the Canadian Radio- television Telecommunications Commission held hearings in Vancouver, and this spring, B.C. Tel came up with a proposal for 'one-way' toll-free calling to Vancouver. The telephone company was all set to proceed with a subscriber plebiscite to see if Aldergrove would be prepared to accept their proposal. The township said no. "The scheme is deliberately set up in such a way that the people would vote against it," says Scholtens. If Aldergrove telephone subscribers were to accept B.C. Tel's proposal (which would give them limited one-way toll free calling to Vancouver exchanges but no points in between), this community would be boosted from rate group no. 8 to rate group no. 19 - the company's highest rate category. In dollars and cents this would mean that the monthly rental for a residential phone would increase by almost 100 percent, from $9.75 to $18.35. A business phone, now costing $29.30 a month, would increase by more than 100 percent, from $29.30 to $63.70. People would still not be able to phone Aldergrove from Vancouver toll-free. Communications with Surrey, New Westminster, Bumaby, etcetera, in either direction, would still be long distance. This week, Scholtens told a B.C. Tel representative, Gordon Holmes, of the township council's "anger and frustration" caused by the company's proposal. "We have been trying to unify the township," he said. "People in Aldergrove should have the same rights as people in Langley." Raising telephone rentals to pretty near the highest amounts allowed by the CRTC "is not fair and equitable to Aldergrove," said Aid. Steve Ferguson, who was one of Langley's representatives at last year's hearings. "Why should Aldergrove have to pay more (than Langley) for less service?" Would B.C. Tel be making or losing money if the…
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: 10.14288/1.0422002
language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: [place of publication unknown] : [publisher not identified]
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source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
type: Text