SilentCallsVictim wrote on Jun 26
th, 2012 at 10:04pm:
If both companies are paying the same basic price for their telephone service and 'Acme B' follows the same procurement principles in general...
Unfortunately companies don't always follow the same procurement principles. In this job and a previous job, I have observed that when procuring a service, you were told you had to use their preferred supplier (who just happened to be internal in both jobs) even though this was more expensive than going to another supplier. However, when a supplier is external you can go with whichever is the most cost-effective.
Quote:It is the effect on the caller, who often pays more to their own telco than to the SP and TCP, which is more significant.
is there an idea of how much is split between the OCP, TCP and SP?
Going by that 0844 supplier I found, they offered 4ppm (off-peak) and 2ppm (peak) rebate to the SP. I'm assuming the TCP take at least 1ppm (I'd guess more) so based on what the SP gets and assuming what the TCP take, very little goes to the OCP compared to what the TCP & SP get.
This is based on the current method, I guess it will change and the costs rise when unbundling happens.
Quote:The availability of 03 flushes out the cases where the enhanced features of non-geographic numbers (including the geographic anonymity) are genuinely beneficial. It also removes the caller from any discussion about the benefit of these features.
I agree but the SP would have to pay (more than likely) for such enhanced features which is why, I believe, 084x numbers are generally used.
Quote:On the Access Charge.
...I have some sympathy with a telco that does not put the rate for calling the particular 0844 number used by someone's GP on the front page of its tariff sheet.
Ofcom guidelines, if I remember correctly, stated it had to give a guide price with regards to calls to 0844 due to number of different ranges. So, BT for example, they could have put "calls to 0844 cost upto 5ppm. Please see PDF for more accurate price". VirginMedia could have put something along the lines of
from 10ppm.
Quote:Unlike the present situation where your telco has hundreds of different groups of non-geographic rates to advise for each tariff, Ofcom proposes that it has just ONE.
Can I clarify whether that is one SC for each number (ie 0845x, 0844x, 0871x, 09x) or one for the entire number range?