I wish to issue a warning to future modem owners who are interested in subscribing to Prestel. You may be in an area which cannot get Prestel at local call rate. It was only after I had subscribed that I found out that the whole country was not a local call rate.

I am now going to start a battle to fight for more local call access points because having contacted my telephone area office I was told that as British Telecom had been privatised it might now have trouble making remote areas local to Prestel.

If any other Prestel users who do not get the service at local call rate would like to contact me over Mailbox to exchange views on this, my Mailbox number is 0824 22531.

Robert Evans, Ruthin, Clwyd

While most of the country enjoys local call rates, some areas don't. Potential subscribers should check in advance - Ed