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Offer premium-rate billing to domestic telephone
customers. Homeowners could set a rate at which calls
to their number would be charged. The monies earned
would be set against the user’s own phone bill. Users
could pre-select rates for all, or just specific, incoming
calls. Rather than barring calls from a persistent

475telesales company, for example, the user would simply
select an expensive tariff to deter them. Calls placed to

numbers operating the system would be greeted with a

message outlining the call charges and allowing the

caller time to hang up if they would rather not pay.
David Owen
7 August 2003 Editor’s note:
This would also
Establish franchises or chains of famous public schoolsappeal to those who
and universities. Outposts of the Cheltenham Ladies would love to attend a
College or Kings College, Cambridge could be opened famous school but
across the country and throughout the world. Existing would never want to
local schools and colleges could be acquired, rebrandedboard there.

476and the staff retrained by experienced teachers from
the original establishments.

Dan Friedman
11 August 2003