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In practice, such charging rates applied only from BT lines and calls typically cost 16p per minute from non-BT landlines and up to 45p per minute from mobile telephones. In 1999, landline providers started to offer "inclusive" call packages where calls to 01 and 02 numbers were free.
As BT no longer has a monopoly of internal wiring, they make a substantial charge if a fault reported to them is found to be in the customer's internal/domestic wiring. It is therefore important for the customer to have the facility to check whether a fault is in their internal wiring/equipment or externally in BT's cabling or systems.
Up to 4.26p a minute (plus VAT), but fixed (e.g. always 3p/minute or always 4p/minute) from BT landline, other providers may charge more; up to 42p a minute from mobiles. 0843 xxx xxxx 0844 00x xxxx Non-BT Discount Scheme—Internet Services incorporating unmetered access up to and including 5p for BT customers 0844 01x xxxx to 0844 09x xxxx
Operator assistance refers to service provided by a telephone operator to the calling party of a telephone call.This can include telephone calls made from pay phones, calls placed station-to-station, person-to-person, or collect, third-number calls, calls billed to credit cards, and certain international calls which cannot be dialed directly.
Virtually all new cordless phones sold in the US use DECT 6.0 on the 1.9 GHz band, though legacy phones can remain in use on the older 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz bands. There is no specific requirement for any particular transmission mode on the older bands, but in practice many legacy phones also have digital features such as DSSS and FHSS .
The UK Health Protection Agency (HPA) claims that due to a mobile phone's adaptive power ability, a European DECT cordless phone's radiation could actually exceed the radiation of a mobile phone. A European DECT cordless phone's radiation has an average output power of 10 mW but is in the form of 100 bursts per second of 250 mW, a strength ...
The Generic Access Profile (GAP) (ETSI standard EN 300 444 [1]) describes a set of mandatory requirements to allow any conforming DECT Fixed Part (base) to interoperate with any conforming DECT Portable Part (handset) to provide basic telephony services when attached to a 3.1 kHz telephone network (as defined by EN 300 176-2).
BT Home Hub 2.0: was supplied with the BT Hub Phone 2.1; The BT Home Hub 3 and 4 do not work with the BT Broadband Talk service or DECT telephones. [14] After 29 January 2011, BT Broadband Talk was no longer provided as part of BT's broadband packages. The phones are only partially compatible with newer or older versions of the hub, able to ...