Test message should be free

No fees should be collected for checking the voice message via telephone about the scores of the national college entrance examination, says an article in Beijing News. The following is an excerpt:

A recent report said that Shanghai will cancel such a charge from this year. For this, the educational bureau will invest 400,000 yuan to cover the free services for students.

From this report we learnt that the charge for these services is very common across the country. Beijing cancelled this charge in 2005. That is to say the money charged for the voice messages about this exam in the whole country must be big if it reaches 400,000 yuan for a province or municipality, as Shanghai has claimed.