Major Brown said all the objections to message rate had emanated from organized communities who felt they. would suffer by the introduction of the message rate, They had not heard from the people who suffered by paying for the large user. The jexperis had had thousands of me surements taken and could give the percentage of each class of subscriber and his calling rate. The experts, he jer_except that per hhaps he had found means unknown elsewhere of using the telephone.
Mr. Wray pointed out that to Intro duce the time measuring device would Increase the average cost of running. the service very considerably. The device was a complicated and expensive one and it was expensive to maintain and operate. It would only bbe of use to check the over-usage of a relatively small number of subscribe fers. "In America the device was only used in one city he knew of and not for the purpose the member had in mind but to prevent listening-in_on party line. There were no yarly {Mines fu Shanghai.
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