bigjohn wrote on Jan 21
st, 2006 at 12:29am:
4.7 Where You make a telephone call by dialling the “BT Break Out Code” (1280) and You have the Homecall Line Rental Service, We will raise Call Charges in respect of that call at the then current standard BT day time retail rate or at Our then current Call Charge rate,
whichever is the higher
, for the telephone number dialled.
So, if they are going to charge you the
higher
rate of the two, then the ability to route a call
via BT using 1280 is less than useless.
bigjohn wrote on Jan 21
st, 2006 at 1:11am:
1280 ... cannot be charged by BT as you dont have an a/c with them.
Good point - hadn't thought of that!
bigjohn wrote on Jan 21
st, 2006 at 1:11am:
As i said, i think 1280 still works ...
I think it's misleading to say it "still works":
- As you've pointed out, BT can't bill you.
- You only get charged the BT rate if it's
higher
. - Hence the whole point of using an alternative carrier to route the call, i.e. to get a
lower
call rate, is defeated. - So, as I've said above, the theoretical ability to choose BT via 1280 is less than useless.
bigjohn wrote on Jan 21
st, 2006 at 1:11am:
You can still use short codes like 1899,18866 with the likes of PO ,TT, Onetel etc ...
Can you please indicate whether you are stating this from personal experience of merely "from what [you] have read around the web."?
I would be interested if anyone can confirm that 1899, 18185, etc. are definately still available with the PO HomePhone service.
bigjohn wrote on Jan 21
st, 2006 at 1:11am:
But it still works at moment.But even if they bar the short code could they bar the free phone access numbers of these providers?
Presumably they could bar the freephone access numbers? Even if they don't, these are still more expensive than dialling 1899, etc. directly - but could still be worthwhile with the cash-back.
The problem would presumably be if you swapped to the PO service on the basis of it being cheaper to use overall in conjunction with the 1899 freephone numbers, and then the PO barred those numbers before you'd got your cashback!