From: Glenda Dodge[SMTP:gdodge@ns.sympatico.ca]

Reply To: gdodge@ns.sympatico.ca

Sent: August 26, 2001 1:29 PM

To: procedure@crtc.gc.ca

Subject: Rural phone rate increase.

Dear Sir,

This increase is no more than a way to pay shareholders a bigger

profit at the expense of the customers. My husband and I are both

against such an increase until service to rural customers is improved.

Glenda and Harold Dodge

Kingston, NS