Lord Mayor seeks cut in phone charges

THE Lord Mayor of Cork is leading a campaign to reduce phone bills for local businesses who, he claims, are being charged far more than their counterparts in Dublin.

Lord Mayor Colm Burke employed researchers over a two-month period to confirm suspicions he’d always had that Cork businesses were being put at a disadvantage by phone companies. He said the research results showed businesses located in Cork only have access to 10% of the population at local call rates.

“This is in stark contrast to the 31% of the population that businesses based in Dublin have access to. Additionally those businesses based in Cork do not even have access to all of the county’s population at local call rates. This highlights the increased costs associated with running businesses based in Ireland’s second city,” said Mr Burke.