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Alternative Phone Landline Options to BT
Alternative Phone Landline Options to BT
Time was when BT, or the Post Office if you go back a little further, was the only company you could deal with when it came to getting telephone...
Bundled Utility Services
Bundled Utility Services
The phrase 'bundled service' is a relatively new one to household in the United Kingdom. It's only in the last ten years or so that companies have begun to talk...
Cutting your Call Costs
Cutting your Call Costs
The cost of mobile phones has come down a great deal in the last few years but has always been more than ordinary phones, or landlines. In the early days the mobile...
Directory Enquiries Services
Directory Enquiries Services
It seemed the strangest thing, opening directory enquiries to competition. But that’s exactly what happened in 2002, when the process was deregulated. Instead of...
Making Calls to Mobile Phones
Making Calls to Mobile Phones
Calls to mobile phones are nowhere near as expensive as they were when cellphones first came out but there is still a significant difference between calling a mobile...
Making International Calls
Making International Calls
Now that society is more mobile the need for people to make international calls has increased, and worldwide telephony infrastructure improvements to satisfy the...
Premium Rate Phone Calls: Your Rights
Premium Rate Phone Calls: Your Rights
Premium rate telephone numbers are very useful for the companies that run them and, as long as consumers know what they are getting into, can...
Understanding Call Plans
Understanding Call Plans
Telephone bills used to be so simple. For a start, you could only get phone services from BT (previously the Post office) and you would pay a standard line rental...
What's Happening With 0845 and 0870 Numbers?
What's Happening With 0845 and 0870 Numbers?
National rate and local rate numbers must have seemed like a good idea to BT when they introduced them in 1996. Known in the trade as 'n...
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