On Wed 29 Oct, AMBROSE SHIRLEY C wrote:
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> From: Nick Pillans <[log in to unmask]>
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> This is for my son his is in the third year of an oceanography course at
> Southampton University. He is deaf, and cannot use a telephone.
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> I would happily pay the call charges, if there were some mechanism to do
> it, but none of the networks seems to have any interest in helping (I have
> tried BT, Vodafone, One to One etc, and, in a word, they couldn't care less
Sorry about the delay in replying, I've had connection problems, some
illness and a backlog of 700 message to sift through.
Try a BT ChargeCard or Cable & Wireless CallingCard set to a single
number. (Unfortunately BT have a problem so dialed ChargeCard calls to BT
EasyReach Pagers are *not* working at the moment so I have not been able
to test that this works, or that the charges are as shown below!
Apparently the fault has been known about for a week or so, but they
cannot say when it will be fixed - they have promissed to Page me when the
system is up again.)
BT quoted to me: 9.5p minimum and 20p/minute thereafter (any time)
for ChargeCard Calls.
C&W CallingCard -> 46p(peak)/ 29p(off peak) approx (ex-VAT)
i.e about 54p(peak)/ 34p(off peak)
per min, charged as per second billing (*not* per call)
NB: for BT you dial 144 then 10 digits ONLY
or: swipe the card in a payphone and dial the PIN
for C&W you dial 0500 800 500 + 16 digits + 4 digit PIN + Phone number!
contact: BT ChargeCard: 0800 345 144 (FAX: 0800 345 123)
http://www.chargecard.bt.com/
C&W (Mercury): 0500 100 505
Other Prices for calls to alphanumeric pagers in the 0432 52 range (BT
EasyReach) as of 01:December:97:
BT (Domestic) -> 55p(peak)/ 35p(off peak)
*per call*
(Callbox) -> 147p(peak)/ 75p(off peak)
per min, charged as per sec billing (*not* per call)
(cf. national calls 14p per minute)
C&W (Domestic) -> as for calling card above
Regards
Ted
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