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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 08:00:04 +0000
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From: Nick Pillans <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Second Request
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This is for my son his is in the third year of an oceanography course at
Southampton University. He is deaf, and cannot use a telephone. We would
like to provide him with an alphanumeric pager, but all the suppliers and
networks I have tried charge rather high prices for connection (usually 55p
per message, or even more from a payphone). Since most of his callers would
be fellow students, it seems unlikely that they would use this for the
routine things for which a phone would normally be used. The aim is to
allow our son to keep in contact with his friends and colleagues in a
similar way to a hearing person.
I would happily pay the call charges, if there were some mechanism to do
it, but none of the networks seems to have any interest in helping (I have
tried BT, Vodafone, One to One etc, and, in a word, they couldn't care less.
Thanks again
Nick Pillans
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