Meemo wrote on May 14
th, 2007 at 5:38pm:
Quote:cowman wrote on Apr 24
th, 2006 at 10:19am:
Any news on the 1280 routing/charging?
I assume I will only know how the 1280 calls are billed when I get my Post Office phone bill with them on. I would imagine they will be charged at BT's residential rate for calling these numbers which is the same for either BT Together or BT Standard line rental customers.
It will be on your BT bill with your line rental - I dial an 0844 number for my in laws in Spain and have to reroute to BT using the 1280 number as Tesco don't recognise them.
That may be the case with
a CPS provider (i.e. where calls are routed via the other provider but line rental remains with BT), but anyone signed up with the Post Office will have signed over their line rental too - hence using a 1280 prefix on a call will not route the call via BT (or, if it does, BT have no way of billing* for the call) - because the subscriber no longer rents their line from BT and so no longer has an account with them either.
* In which case, BT will charge the other provider who, after adding their mark up, will charge the customer.