Internet Magazine 'free' calls campaign [2 March 1998]
Internet Magazine has started a campaign for 'free' local calls. Here's a sample:
Consider CWC's [corrected from 'C&W' - AMS] recent four-way merger. According to Derek Austin, telecoms service manager of CWC's consumer business unit, the merger brought together four separate, and mostly incompatible, billing systems. 'With Videotron, unmetered calls were simple to administer because all relevant lines began with the same numbers, but now it's almost impossible to trace where someone is calling from.'
This is a rather surprising assertion, given that CWC must know where calls come from - and go to - to pay access and network charges to other telecommunications operators. For example, if a call goes from a CWC telephone to a BT telephone CWC pay BT for the 'privilege' of using BT's network; that's why Videotron calls from London to Southampton or vice versa are metered off-peak.
It's worth noting that a list of operators and codes is available at the University of Warwick.
There's a feedback page of sorts with an email address; it would be worth telling Internet Magazine about the Watch.
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