TELEPHONE CONNECTIONS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2333, 15 December 1914, Page 7

TELEPHONE CONNECTIONS

NEW METHOD OP 'ADVISING SUBSCRIBERS. From January 1 next the Post and Telegraph Department . intends to abolish the issue of supplementary lists notifying new subscribers to telephone exchanges, which lists in many cases simply' find their way to the waste paper basket without even being opened. The new. system includes tho issue to every telephone exchange subscriber of a supply of post-cards on which is printed a notification-that ho has iust bad installed at his "business premises" or "private residence" a telephone, tho number of which is given. These cards, which may be sent through the post free of postage to his business clients and friends, are signed by the new subscriber, and forwarded to his correspondents. In this way attention is called in a much more personal and much clearer manner to tho new number than is at present the case where the numbers are printed together in one list.' This from a business point of view will be a decided ad. vantage.

To provide for cases in. which persons have not been communicated with by x post-card, the Department is installing at the telephone exchange a special telephone for inquiries, through which tho public will readily receive information with reference to tho number of any new subscriber joining during the interval between the publication of lists. For instanco, if John Brown, a telephone exchange subscriber, does not find Thomas Smith's name on the main list,''ho will ask to bo put on to tho inquiry telephone, and on making his request known, will bo informed of Thomas Smith's tolcphono number, and asked to make'a note of it on his list. Tho' system which is about to be adopted hero 'answers admirably, and is the ruling one in America, more particularly in New York and other very large centres, and it is much appreciated by tho American public.