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In article , Geoff Briggs wrote:
Of course, for this to work, you must be signed up for 'caller display'*
with your telecom supplier. Having just bought a set of panasonic phones*
last night, I have been looking in to this :-) 'Caller Display' with BT*
costs £1.75 per month, *BUT* if you sign up for 'BT privacy at home',*
caller display is free and it automatically signs you up with TPS. Bargain!

Hmm. I didn't realise I was paying extra for this - I didn't ask for it and
it just happened. Since mobile phones do it with no extra charge I just
assumed it was part of the service, as it should be. Must check the bill.
What does "BT Privacy at home" cost?

Rod.

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I'm afraid I don't know. It contradicts my own experience with them.
The
one area where they are no use whatsoever is cold calls from outside the
UK - and most cold callers have cottoned onto this and I now receive
calls
from India and the US!

The telephone operators themselves can do nothing such international calls
so it is folly to expect the TPS to be able to take action.

I never said I did expect the TPS to do anything about international calls
;-).

Paul DS

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Roderick Stewart wrote:
Hmm. I didn't realise I was paying extra for this - I didn't ask for it and
it just happened. Since mobile phones do it with no extra charge I just
assumed it was part of the service, as it should be. Must check the bill.
What does "BT Privacy at home" cost?

Absolutely nada, nowt, zero and nothing. http://www.bt.com/privacy/ will
get you there. Yes, there is a bit of a question inherent in them having
exactly the same functionality available for a charge, isn't there?

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Mark wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:59:29 +0100, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

In article , Brian
Gaff wrote:
Are they not a bit thick actually allowing their number to be seen.

My phone sometimes shows "Number Withheld" when it rings. I never
answer those calls. Maybe there are other people like me, and these
companies reckon that on balance they get through to more people by
not hiding their number, and that this is enough to outweigh the
inconvenience of having to deal with occasional complaints.

I assume "Number Withheld" is different from "Unavailable", which is
another message it sometimes shows. Presumably "Unavailable" means
the call has come from a source or via a route that cannot handle
CLI, so I sometimes answer those just in case. But if the
information *is* available and a caller has taken deliberate action
to suppress it, they clearly have something to hide, so I don't want
to know them.

Trouble is a lot of calls have "Withheld" shown, even the ones I would
choose to receive, such as friends, businesses I do want to talk to
etc. This means it is not useful as an indicator for me.

I sometimes get "Unavailable" when it is a client from abroad too.

Some people that choose to go ex-directory have their number witheld
automatically even if they don't request it and may not even realise.
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Roderick Stewart wrote:
In article , Geoff Briggs
wrote:
Of course, for this to work, you must be signed up for 'caller
display' with your telecom supplier. Having just bought a set of
panasonic phones last night, I have been looking in to this :-)
'Caller Display' with BT costs £1.75 per month, *BUT* if you sign up
for 'BT privacy at home', caller display is free and it
automatically signs you up with TPS. Bargain!

Hmm. I didn't realise I was paying extra for this - I didn't ask for
it and it just happened. Since mobile phones do it with no extra
charge I just assumed it was part of the service, as it should be.
Must check the bill. What does "BT Privacy at home" cost?

Rod.

BT Privacy at home is free.

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Angus Rae wrote:
Roderick Stewart wrote:
What does "BT Privacy at home" cost?

Absolutely nada, nowt, zero and nothing.

Correcting myself; the CLID side of it costs nothing as long as you make
a couple of chargeable calls a month, otherwise they reserve the right
to levy the normal charge - shouldn't be an issue unless you're on
holiday for a month or use a 3rd party calling system that's on an 0800
number. Or just don't make any phone calls.

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University of Edinburgh
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In article , Angus Rae wrote:
Roderick Stewart wrote:
What does "BT Privacy at home" cost?
*
Absolutely nada, nowt, zero and nothing.*

Correcting myself; the CLID side of it costs nothing as long as you make*
a couple of chargeable calls a month, otherwise they reserve the right*
to levy the normal charge - shouldn't be an issue unless you're on*
holiday for a month or use a 3rd party calling system that's on an 0800*
number. Or just don't make any phone calls.

Not likely to have cost me much then, and since I registered on the TPS
website anyway, I probably wouldn't achieve anything by trying to change my
BT account.

It does seem odd that they either charge, or don't charge, for exactly the
same service, depending on how it's ordered.

Rod.

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Angus Rae wrote:
Correcting myself; the CLID side of it costs nothing as long as you make
a couple of chargeable calls a month, otherwise they reserve the right
to levy the normal charge

And they do :-(

Remember to dial 1280-{number} once in a while....

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Adrian C wrote:
Remember to dial 1280-{number} once in a while....


Er... if your are switched out with another provider.

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On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:36:05 +0100, Adrian C wrote:

Correcting myself; the CLID side of it costs nothing as long as you make
a couple of chargeable calls a month, otherwise they reserve the right
to levy the normal charge

And they do :-(

Remember to dial 1280-{number} once in a while....

Yes, the *******s have caught me with this. Took me ages to find it in
their damned small print as well.