Phone companies should cap the bills of older and more vulnerable landline customers during the coronavirus lockdown, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has said.
Mayor Burnham said that telecommunications companies and the government should place a cap on the monthly landline bills of people over aged 75.
His comments came after speaking to an elderly resident on his BBC radio phone-in. 80 year old Mary said that she had been self-isolating since early March and that the landline is her only way of communicating with the outside world.
She told listeners: “I have no computer, along with thousands of other elderly people. And we’re very concerned that at the end of all this our telephone bills, if we do try to communicate with people,