FOOTBALL 'CLUB CALL' SERVICES

EDM number 182 in 1990-91, proposed by Terry Lewis on 06/12/1990.

That this House notes the unseemly dispute between British Telecom and several professional football clubs in respect of telephone `Club Call' services; is little surprised at this turn of events over what has been described by the principals in the dispute as a ú10 million `money spinner'; draws urgent attention to the fact that the bulk of this revenue is generated through the unauthorised use of other people's telephones by users of the service; and therefore urges the Director General OFTEL to enforce such regulations as exist to prevent these from being advertised mainly to young people who are not telephone subscribers.

This motion has been signed by a total of 8 MPs.