The Report of the Select Committee on the telephone service
was issued on Wednesday. It is a very valuable and most interesting document. It points out that there is " a universal antagonism—often unreasonable—to British telephone administration." It remarks that in other countries the public enters into a sort of friendly partnership with the telephone management, whereas in the British Isles " this disposition is conspicuously absent." Of course, there are traceable reasons for this, and the Committee undoubtedly indicate one of them when they remark that there is some ground for saying that the Post Office thinks that " the public was made for the Post Office and not the Post Office for the public." " It tends to make a cast-iron application of regulations." The Report then goes on to recommend an immediate reduction of 10 per cent. on subscribers' accounts.
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