The note on the phone reads '20p per unit' - but what does a unit get you? There's no indication, so the information that a unit costs 20p is entirely unhelpful.
Or is there such a thing as a widely known, standard 'telephone unit'?
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Spotted this in a hotel room recently (the Cathedral Gate Hotel in Canterbury, if I recall correctly):
The note on the phone reads '20p per unit' - but what does a unit get you? There's no indication, so the information that a unit costs 20p is entirely unhelpful.
Or is there such a thing as a widely known, standard 'telephone unit'?
The note on the phone reads '20p per unit' - but what does a unit get you? There's no indication, so the information that a unit costs 20p is entirely unhelpful.
Or is there such a thing as a widely known, standard 'telephone unit'?
2 comments:
Isn't it three minutes?
It might well be on a Telecom bill, Ridger, but hotels charge what they like so I'd agree that 'unit' is meaningless. Judging by bitter experience I'd bet you wouldn't get more than a minute for 20p, and probably less.
On the same theme, one of the supermarkets is advertising an allegedly bargain price of £5 for a "platter" of party food. And in this case not only don't they say how big the platter is, they're pretty vague about what's on it.
"I'd like a nice dish of caveat emptor, please."
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