dragging their heels in connecting an Island business.

PriceBusters recently moved from Reid Street back to its original site in Mills Creek.

Store bosses said the biggest challenge in the move was getting the telephone number to the new location transferred and claimed the matter had been pending since January 6.

But last night a Telco spokeswoman said the delay was caused by the store itself and that the number had now been transferred -- after PriceBusters carried out its part of the work.

She said in some cases some work had to be carried out by the customer and in this case telephone engineers waited for PriceBusters to install a conduit.

"We have been working with PriceBusters since the beginning of January up until Wednesday,'' said the spokeswoman. "All we could do was done.'' "We could not hook them up because they had not laid the conduit down, which we had provided for them and which had been in their possession since February 6.

`PriceBusters put the conduit in on Wednesday and they had service the next day.'' She added that Telco officials were annoyed that PriceBusters was considering a contest for customers to pick a day when the phone service would be operational because the matter was in the company's hands.

"This was a business installation. It was not a simple matter of turning on the telephone,'' said the spokeswoman.