Barring mobile numbers on my home phone

Heinz

So, right or wrong, it's back to post #3 as a solution to the OP's problem then!:D

spike7451

Inactive wrote: »

Fair enough, however you have not clarified the 087 number that you stated was used for ringing home from a Sky Receiver.

I am certain that it is in fact an 0800 number.

I have phoned a friend of mine who is a manager at Sky & according to the boffins at Sky,it's something to do with when Sky call the box to get a ringback on a 087 number & NOT the box dialling Sky on a 0800 number,because 0800 numbers being free & therefore do not register on a ringback,an 087 number is used.

Heinz

spike7451 wrote: »

I have phoned a friend of mine who is a manager at Sky & according to the boffins at Sky,it's something to do with when Sky call the box to get a ringback on a 087 number & NOT the box dialling Sky on a 0800 number,because 0800 numbers being free & therefore do not register on a ringback,an 087 number is used.

If I'm reading that correctly, you're saying that Sky can phone digiboxes and somehow take them over and force them to dial out on an 087 number. That's outrageous.

Inactive

Heinz wrote: »

If I'm reading that correctly, you're saying that Sky can phone digiboxes and somehow take them over and force them to dial out on an 087 number. That's outrageous.

Not only " outrageous " but illegal as well I suspect, if true.

Easy cure to that, pull the phone line out, then when they start whinging about the Multiroom T&C's, challenge them.;)

Anyway, I am still not convinced that this is the situation, surely any 087 numbers would show up on phone bills, surely someone would have noticed before now.

Heinz

I have my Sky box connected to the telephone line so that I can order PPV films once in a while (when I can't talk the GL out of it ). The box is programmed to insert a 1280 prefix (I use a CPS calls provider) so, within a day, I could, on my BT online A/C, see any chargeable call made. I never have.

Interestingly, although I know my box calls home regularly (I am billed for my PPV film purchases) and I do not withhold my CLI, Sky do not know my landline telephone number!

5limJim

will check this tomorrow, I do work that applies/removes barrs and I cant understand this, we can apply Mobile bars as an individual feature, nothing to do with 087x numbers etc....unless am misreading the thread