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THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday September 1889Page21 Phone would cost more at US prices NC You would pay about a year than you do now if you were to buy your current telephone services at S prices says an annual study by Bell Canada The study compare the yearly of a typical selection or basket of telephone services in Canadian cities with the prices paid in S cities of similar size It shows that the average Bell residence customer would pay S prices while an average Bell business cus would pay about 65 less When the price differences for both business and residence customers are combined Canadians overall would pay more a year at S rates These figures are in Canadian dol ment taxes which are much higher here than in the United States In this country long distance service is sub ject to a federal lax 1 0 per cent at the time of the study and eight and nine per cent provincial tax in Ontario and Quebec respectively If the taxes are removed from the son Bell residence customers would pay about 100 more and bus ness would pay about 55 more at US prices Canadians find their price advan in two areas local service which would cost the average residential subscriber more the S and long distance calls made to tions less than mites away distance calls of more than 100 miles are cheaper at American rates However pr cent of long calls made by residence custom are under the 100 mile mark and Canada business long distance calls are also less than miles The fact that rates for long distance calls of over 1 miles are more sive in Canada is an issue frequently raised by those who favor two or more They claim that these particular rates are cheaper because there are several long distance suppliers in thai country They maintain that such competition in Canada would also lead to lower rates These arguments overlook the fact that the average Bell customer uses much more than just this type of long distance service Bell s study examines a range of services commonly used by average residence and business customers Under these conditions Canadians overall pay for telephone service than Americans The approach Bell uses in its annual study is the same as the one Statistics Canada uses when calculating the over all cost of living known as the con sumerPnce Index Rather than focus a single service Bell looked at rates fora basket ofservices mg local and longdistance installation and WATS a specialized business service for heavy users of long dis tance The company then determines how these services are generally used and how frequently by the average ness and residence customer during the course of a year For this study prices in Montreal andToronto were compared with those in US cilies of comparable size such as Houston Philadelphia Milwaukee Cleveland and San Francisco Canada turns on to television Canada s first TV broadcast took place when Montreal s hit the airwaves on September 6 1952 Two days later went on the air The two stations transmitted programs to an area which held about a quarter of Canada s existing popula lion of million From its inception TV s popularity in Canada grew enormously By the end of 1954 service was available to almost of Canadians through a combination of CBC owned stations and private affiliates During this time Canada ranked second worldwide in live TV program production and of TV stations By 1958 the CBC was operating the worlds longest TV network ft linked Vancouver and Victoria to Halifax and Sydney By 1960 of Canadians ColourTVwas introduced in 1966 NATIONAL REAL ESTATE SERVICE BRAND REALTY INC J- We Present than th lab In lha big ktlehan Urn y It a of a and alyou G and