Dave wrote on Nov 14
th, 2013 at 2:52am:
After your question I checked and found this article about the swap to TalkTalk, Fujitsu and Capita dated 25th May 2012 at
www.information-age.com/technology/mobile-and-networking/2105193/post-office-dro... Yet at the moment, 18 months later, my line is still with BT Openreach judging from various short codes and features that only normally work on a BT Openreach provided line.
As it happens my internet connection is actually underlyingly through Opal Telecoms (the business division of CarPhone Warehous) LLU equipment (the same LLU equipment as TalkTalk's) but my internet service provider is
www.vivaciti.net and I have never had any problems or outages with it. This business product gives me a much higher priority for downloading in peak hours than TalkTalk's own cheapest broadband products.
I wonder if the new ability of Post Office Homephone to offer CLI without charging any extra is connected with the switch from BT Openreach to Opal/CPW's network?
At the end of the day Post Office Homephone's contractual terms are considerably better than those of TalkTalk's but and if indirect access disappears I will probably just take an Anytime calls package as I think 18185 generally costs me about the same but is always a nuisance when hunting for a new alternative geographic number.
BT certainly do not deserve to be supported in view of their disgraceful behaviour in vastly ramping up the cost of line rental over the last 10 years and in bringing in massive connection fees and widely rolling out "free 1571 voicemail" in order to blackmail everybody in to taking Anytime calls packages. This policy is hugely discriminatory against single person households who get far less economic benefit from such packages than families.
Trying to force people to take Line Advance is all just part of their latest disgusting Accountant led quest to guarantee the entire value of their expected annual revenue stream. Leaving this leaching company is the only way one can stop this.
I believe Primus have probably already blocked Indirect Access on their lines so the days of Finarea's UK telecoms provision may be limited. I also currently have huge issues with my 18185 service where calls are taking up to 30 seconds to connect and I am getting some overseas call misrouting messages.