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Originally Posted by Andyband
I guess the OP felt that they were educating those that do not read the small print of who owns what website, so that they knew if they switched from BT to madasfish, they were still going with a BT owned company? Just a thought.
I guess its a bit like the out of town PC World/Dixons/Currys stores often being clumped together, people think they can choose to avoid one of those stores if they do not like the company and, for one reason or another wish to 'vote with their £' and shop at one of the others, not knowing that in fact all 3 are owned by Dixons Groups plc.
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Thats right Andyband!
Same with 3,Superdrug,The Perfume Shop and Savers, all owned by Hutchison.
But back to the subject,someone said phone services are getting cheaper.
Well I have to disagree, in 1997, the price of a national phone call on BT was about 8p per minute, its slowly creeping back to that! On Cable it was about 5p per minute and now its nearly double that outside allowances.
And line rental on BT back then was about £9.99, on Cable it was about £6.99, its now £11.99 on Cable and £12.50 on BT.
BT Directory Enquiries and Mercury/Cable and Wireless Directory Enquiries on 142 and 192 costed no more than 60p per minute, now its £1.16 per minute on BT 118500 and 118099 Cable and Wireless is just 35p per call at the moment.
At one point Directory Enquiries was free and then was just free from payphones and then BT flooded in a charge for that.