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BT No Longer Required To Give Indirect Access EG 18185 And CPS
billsavings
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This may be important to money savers so i have extracted it from the BT Price Rise Thread.
Post By Graham1 this morning.
"According to
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/consultations/nmr-13/statement/statement-summary
"we are removing BT's obligation to offer carrier pre-selection (CPS) and indirect access (IA) where BT's retail arm provides the retail access line"
This could be bad news for people who rely on indirect codes for making their calls.
Removing the obligation does not, of course, mean the facility will definitely be withdrawn immediately but, in time, I think it will."
Post By Graham1 this morning.
"According to
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/consultations/nmr-13/statement/statement-summary
"we are removing BT's obligation to offer carrier pre-selection (CPS) and indirect access (IA) where BT's retail arm provides the retail access line"
This could be bad news for people who rely on indirect codes for making their calls.
Removing the obligation does not, of course, mean the facility will definitely be withdrawn immediately but, in time, I think it will."
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You can still use 18185 if bt stop you by using their freephone access number.0
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To be fair it might just mean BT can fund 'free' BT Sport without so many price increases for the 90% of its customers who don't even take it's BT Sport channel. Which would be a much fairer way of doing things (short of actually charging for BT Sport instead of stinging those who don't use it by increasing prices across the whole customer base so often). 'Free' BT Sport was always going to be a marketing term. I would love to know how many punters who use one of these indirect access numbers for all their calls have the 'free' BT Sports. I bet it's a high %tage
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You can still use 18185 if bt stop you by using their freephone access number.
18185 is the indirect access (IA) code which is potentially at risk.
I doubt if the 0808 access number would ever be blocked, even users on BT basic (who cannot use IA codes) are able to call the 0808 access number.
So probably not a big deal unless the user makes a lot of long calls (1p/min via the 0808 access number instead of 0p/min).0 -
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Breaking news!
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Like you? With 5000+ why would I bother?wongawonga wrote: »Posting for the sake of posting must be trying to get your post count up.This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
It'll be interesting to see if others follow suit re use of 18185 etc ie Plusnet.0
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