LONDON CITY

C&W owned Mercury, sold the telephone business to NTL who subsequently sold
it to nPower - who closed it down a couple of months ago.


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Woody

harrogate@ntlworld.com

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 21:38:57 +0100, harrogate
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C&W owned, along with some other shareholders, Mercury. Mercury was
renamed C&W Communications (I think), then split into two separate
entities, ConsumerCo and DataCo. NTL bought ConsumerCo from its
owners (C&W and others). Somewhat bizarrely C&W then proceeded to buy
DataCo from the owners (Itself and others) efffectively purchasing
from the other owners the bit of DataCo it didnt already own.
Somewhere along the line it sod One2One to a German company - probably
T-Mobile (not too sure who owns them)


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Peter

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harrogate wrote in message
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Well not entirely, but you have to use CPS or a single code, no long codes
or charge codes anymore.

To think when C&W first started indirect service back in the 80s you could
call from any line, and often the code would work from well out of area,
saving a lot of money on calls. I managed to set up codes in Reading,
London and Manchester, but scrapped the remotes when they started standing
charges.

R. Mark Clayton wrote in message
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Yes - entirely. When Mercury first started it was the 131 service which
required a 10 digit access code to be input before the number. This only
applied where CLI was not available from the exchange - in some cases right
up to the end. If CLI was available then the 132 service was used where the
access code was not required.

When NTL took it over they retained everything.

When it was sold to nPower a year or so ago they soon gave notice of
ceasing, and closed the service earlier this year. The service as such
however is still available from nPower as the 162 service although they
would prefer you to use a Smartbox or CPS.


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Woody

harrogate@ntlworld.com

harrogate wrote in message
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npower do a telephone service provided you get you electricity or gas from
them, they are cheap.
They provided me with a couple of smart sockets but these reduce the REN of the
line and I like using old style phones with bells (706/746 phones & these soak
up the juice), so I dont use the smart sockets any more but dial their prefix
code instead.
Mike.



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Mike CJ wrote in message
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Not quite right. Anyone can have indirect access with nPower whether they
supply your fuel and power or not. I should know - I have it that way.


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Woody

harrogate@ntlworld.com