Welcome
The number looked sort of familiar to me, and it is, as I've seen this on newsgroups but not taken much notice
Looking on Google, it appears to be from a company called Data Partnership Solutions on behalf of an associated satellite TV operation called Satcover.
They don't seem to respect TPS registration, claming that it is not direct marketing but a survey
Which is rather odd, as this was in the Daily Mirror
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/mirrorinvestigates/tm_column_date=19052005-name_ind... Quote:SINK THIS 'SKY' SUBS COLD CALL
SKY subscribers beware, if you haven't had a call from Subscriber Services yet you will soon.
The company makes 25,000 cold calls a week, each one starting: "Hello, I'm calling from Subscriber Services regarding the manufacturer's warranty on your Sky television system, which has expired."
The sales rep, on a fiver commission for each new client, then tries to sell a warranty for £65 a year.
But the caller is not actually from the satellite broadcaster, but an outfit that trades as Satellite Direct UK, Satcover, HomeCare, Skycare Service Agreements and Subscriber Services.
It claims more than 400,000 clients, including Judy Brooks of Wakefield, West Yorks, who insists: "They said they were part of Sky Digital."
When her system broke down, she phoned Sussex-based Satellite Direct, only to be told that it couldn't get an engineer to her for three weeks.
Then she called Sky, which said it would have fixed it the next day.
Subscriber Services and its sister companies are owned and run by 40-year-old David Reynolds, driver of two Lexus cars with personalised plates.
He blamed the delay in reaching Judy on sub-contracted engineers.
"We have rectified all the problems by employing our own engineers and the call-out time in that area is one to two days," he told us.
But could his staff's sales pitch mislead people into thinking the call is from Sky itself?
"If somebody says they are unhappy, if they tell us they took out our warranty by mistake or that we are not who they thought we were, we give a full refund," he pledged.