Documentary from panel discussion, listener phone-ins, and tape features, which explores how expanding specialty phone services are being subsidized by basic phone rates, and the selling of ancillary services such as call waiting and call forwarding among minority and disadvantaged communities. Examines the roll of phone bills in subsidizing the modernization of the phone companies, and the need for public awareness of these issues.|OPPORTUNITY IS CALLING--COLLECT / produced by Isabel Alegria| executive producer Bari Scott. SERIES: The Communications revolution| no. 4 Documentary from panel discussion, listener phone-ins, and tape features on how expanding specialty phone services are being subsidized by basic phone rates, and the selling of ancillary services such as call waiting and call forwarding among minority and disadvantaged communities. Examines the roll of phone bills in subsidizing the modernization of the phone companies, and the need for public awareness of these issues. BROADCAST: Satellite, 12 July 1990.
