Mobile Phones

EDM number 169 in 1995-96, proposed by Frank Cook on 06/12/1995.

That this House notes with considerable concern that the introduction of mobile telecommunications, whilst heralding the creation of a most welcome development, namely, the truly complete and portable office facility, has brought with it a number of very questionable characteristics and practices, such as, the marketing of devices as being totally secure when in fact such is not the case, the very wide disparity in form, terms and conditions of contract foisted upon an unsuspecting and gullible usership resultingin enormous variation in standing charges, costs per unit and release fees on termination of agreement, the so far unbridled practice of re-chipping analogue devices that have changed hands by fair means or foul, and the susceptibility of these same types of device to cloning and so rendering them open to abuse by others without the owner's knowledge and consent; and, so in a quest for disciplined countermeasures to this unsatisfactory state of affairs, notes the intention to establish a Registered Parliamentary Group on Mobile Phones to explore means and to press for measures by which this sector of the communications industry can be brought to proper order.

This motion has been signed by a total of 25 MPs.