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Letter: Paying to page

Published 1 July 1995

From M.G. Harman

As your Feedback item (10 June) on “Caller Party Pays” for radio pagers says, a caller pays heavily when calling premium lines with codes such as 0839 and 0891; there are at least four other such numbers.

It would be nice for consumers if we could recognise such codes easily, and the obvious technique would be to have a standard first digit (after the “0”) for them. But the simplest solution is no longer possible, as 0800 has been made the standard toll-free code. Did BT do this deliberately, did the point simply not occur to them, or don’t they care?

Issue no. 1984 published 1 July 1995

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