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Mr Arena said: "The arrangement for only barring the level '9' programmes for those customers who do not respond is made with a view to meeting the dual requirements of preventing children from easy access to the Infoline level '9' programmes and, in the mean time, to minimising the inconvenience that may cause to an Infoline user who has omitted to give his instruction to HKTC.
"In any case, customers may request a change of their Infoline access arrangement by contacting HKTC, even after they have indicated their choices in this opt-in exercise," he explained.
"I have also noted that there are requests from the public for the separation of children programmes from adult programmes and dating programmes.
"I agree that there is a need for such a separation. HKTC has committed that it would perform such a separation by end 1995 when the prefix of Infoline service will change from '173' to '900'," Mr Arena added.
The new access arrangement for Infoline service has been discussed between the Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) and HKTC for a number of months.
Before arriving at the final decision, the Telecommunications Authority considered experiences in overseas countries and consulted the information providers, the Commissioner for Television and Entertaining Licensing (CTEL) and the Telecommunications Users and Consumers Advisory Committee (UCAC),
"I would like to thank all who have contributed to the development of this new access arrangement for Infoline service, particularly the UCAC Members who have given a lot of valuable advice to OFTA on this subject," Mr Arena said.
End/Tuesday, March 7, 1995
Pharmacy registration examination results announced
The Pharmacy and Poisons Board of Hong Kong announced today (Tuesday) results of the registration examinations for pharmacists held in December last year.
A total of 61, 56 and 52 candidates sat for the examinations in "Pharmacy Legislation in Hong Kong", "Pharmacy Practice" and "Pharmacology" respectively with corresponding passing rates of 34.4 per cent, 42.9 per cent and 69.2 per cent.
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