UK government asks telecoms firms to ‘raise awareness’ of cheaper tariffs

UK Digital Secretary Nadine Dorries has written to BT, Virgin Media O2, KCom and others to ask them to ‘outline plans for promoting low-cost social tariffs’ for people on benefits.
The secretary of state also asked telcos to provide their estimates of take-up over the coming twelve months of social tariffs. Ofcom described social tariffs are deals which are only available to those on certain government benefits.
The thrust of the argument seems to be that while lower cost deals for b