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mystery call charge on bt bill 123?
lovelyjubbly
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Hi there, I have just checked my recent usage on my BT bill and there is a call charge to a number 123 i have been charged over 40p it says it was only for a few seconds as well, and have no idea what for, it is also strange because it is logged at the exact time I made a call to my local garage, so dont see how I could have made two calls at the same time? any ideas?
look after the pennies and the pounds look after themselves.
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Timeline (the old Speaking Clock). Unfortunately, it's one of those numbers children playing like to punch in.Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.0
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Hi Heinz,
the speaking clock you say? well I don't have any children, and as I say it is logged at the same time as I made a phone call, so if anyone called it, it would have had to have been me, and I certainly did not press 123look after the pennies and the pounds look after themselves.0 -
What is the number of the garage you dialled? Does it include the digits 123 in sequence?0
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Hi notbritishgas,
you have hit the nail on the head! I didnt realise the number does indeed include 123, the number was (area code followed by)712308!
I guess I will just have to swallow the cost as I dont think bt would refund the other call.look after the pennies and the pounds look after themselves.0 -
Yes looks like the area code and first 7 did not register, but in theory you should have heard the speaking clock. You obviously redialled and got through a second time.lovelyjubbly wrote: »Hi notbritishgas,
you have hit the nail on the head! I didnt realise the number does indeed include 123, the number was (area code followed by)712308!
I guess I will just have to swallow the cost as I dont think bt would refund the other call.0 -
More likely it was a local number so the OP was not using an STD code - and just the leading 7 didn't register for some reason.notbritishgas wrote: »Yes looks like the area code and first 7 did not register, but in theory you should have heard the speaking clock. You obviously redialled and got through a second time.Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.0 -
Hi Heinz and notbritishgas, yes you are probably right, it was a local call so I may not have used the std code, I didnt hear any clock just a dead line noise, so redialed straight away. I will make sure I use the std code in the future.look after the pennies and the pounds look after themselves.0
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