Privatisation of telecommunication

Privatisation of telecommunication; ENGLAND: London: Post Office Tower:INTCS Memory telephone (GPO)New Cavendish Street:EXTCS Poster advertising 'The Memory Phone' in shop window PULL backNon-standard coloured telephone - press button - sale tagTS Push button telephone on sale in shopMS Customers look through window of shopINTCMS Press button mobile radio telephone taken from holderCS Young man speaks into mobile handsetTS Yellow push button telephoneTS AnotherEXTCS 69 pounds on sale ticket on antique telephone in shop window General Post Office (GPO) HQ:INTSir William Barlow (Chairman of the GPO) press conference SOF- Well it could cause bills to go up I fear, it all depends what happens on the apparatus front, the post office needs a steady inward cash flow to pay for investment, to maintain and expand the network, this is one of the difficulties we're in with the government at the moment, their present cash limit policy is making it difficult for us to do what is necessary to maintain and expand the network and indeed to meet customers' orders generallyNew Cavendish Street:Bryan Stanley (Post Office Engineering Union (POEU)) interview SOF: - We shall be campaigning through parliament ... EXTMS Antique telephones in windowINTMS Man and women looking at modern telephone system Various shots of antique telephones MS Saleswoman showing telephone to customer Girl looking at 'Superman' telephone on display and picking up handsetTx 21.7.80/NAT: + FINAL & D&E MAG:
Privatisation of telecommunication; ENGLAND: London: Post Office Tower:INTCS Memory telephone (GPO)New Cavendish Street:EXTCS Poster advertising 'The Memory Phone' in shop window PULL backNon-standard coloured telephone - press button - sale tagTS Push button telephone on sale in shopMS Customers look through window of shopINTCMS Press button mobile radio telephone taken from holderCS Young man speaks into mobile handsetTS Yellow push button telephoneTS AnotherEXTCS 69 pounds on sale ticket on antique telephone in shop window General Post Office (GPO) HQ:INTSir William Barlow (Chairman of the GPO) press conference SOF- Well it could cause bills to go up I fear, it all depends what happens on the apparatus front, the post office needs a steady inward cash flow to pay for investment, to maintain and expand the network, this is one of the difficulties we're in with the government at the moment, their present cash limit policy is making it difficult for us to do what is necessary to maintain and expand the network and indeed to meet customers' orders generallyNew Cavendish Street:Bryan Stanley (Post Office Engineering Union (POEU)) interview SOF: - We shall be campaigning through parliament ... EXTMS Antique telephones in windowINTMS Man and women looking at modern telephone system Various shots of antique telephones MS Saleswoman showing telephone to customer Girl looking at 'Superman' telephone on display and picking up handsetTx 21.7.80/NAT: + FINAL & D&E MAG:
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804875696
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21 July, 1980
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00:02:26:07
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United Kingdom
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