It appears yet again that those asking for help have left us to do basic spadework. It is known that Kaspersky Lab UK has a new address but no-one posts it.
Rikki_Tikki wrote on Nov 6
th, 2009 at 12:08pm:
Please can anyone notify me of the non geographic telephone number for Kaspersky.Co.UK. They used to have one but now that they have moved to an Abingdon address their Tech Help line is now:
0871 789 1653 […]
They used to have one what? What is it?
From the
Kaspersky Lab UK contact page:
97 Milton Park
Abingdon
Oxfordshire
OX14 4RY
United Kingdom
General Information: info@kasperskylab.co.uk or fax 0871 789 1633
Home User sales support: 0808 1017519
Technical Support: 0871 789 1635
Milton Park is a business estate managed by MEPC:
http://www.mepc.com/miltonpark/Home.aspxInformation on number 97:
http://www.mepc.com/miltonpark/News/LatestNews/97-ThisisaStatementBuilding.aspxThe news release from Kaspersky on the move is here:
http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/news?id=207575842So the building is nearly 38,000 sq ft over three floors and Kaspersky's office is about 12,000 sq ft, so that suggests that they occupy only one floor.
It also says that their old offices aren't far away as they moved from Culham Science Centre near Abingdon.
Sophos UK is also based nearby.
The number for Home User Sales Support, 0808 101 7519, has one single long burst of ringing before being answered by an Irish accented lady. There is a delay of two or three seconds before the ringing starts.
Option 2 goes through to technical support, just the same as calling 0871 789 1635. The English accented man even says that calls cost 10 pence per minute (as he does from the 0871 number). Of course, this is only applicable when calling through the 0871, but nonetheless suggests that option 2 on the 0808 number forwards to the same number as the 0871 number.
The local dialling code is 01235. The only number I can find for them is listed by Microsoft:
https://solutionfinder.microsoft.com/Partners/PartnerDetailsView.aspx?partnerid=...This gives the Milton Park address, so must be quite new. It is 01235 450000 for voice and 01235 450001 for faxes. 01235 45 is a prefix allocated to telecommunications provider Verizon UK Ltd. There is a delay of nearly 10 seconds before ringing kicks in and it is more a purring ringing tone, so I don't think that it is one of these 01235 45xxxx numbers that the 0871 number points to. The ringing on it is what I consider to be normal UK ringing tone. It is provided by Cable & Wireless (assuming that it hasn't been ported away).
Do we have any idea of what the telephone number (0871, 01235 or whatever) is for the Kaspersky Lab UK office? The one for enquiries not relating to technical support?
I have added an entry for reaching technical support via the 0808 number, with a note explaining that calls are free and to ignore the 10p/min message.