Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/06/10/more_uk_telcos_deny_tollfree/
More UK telcos deny toll-free access – so who is it?
Call us -- the phone bill's getting really aggravating...
Posted in Business, 10th June 1999 13:06 GMT
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Cable and Wireless and NTL have joined BT in denying they have plans to offer unlimited toll-free access to the Internet within the next three months. Yesterday, Tory MP Ian Bruce said that telcos were working on a service that would give phone users access to a single toll-free number of their choice -- a move that would provide unmetered access to the Internet for millions of people in the UK (see earlier story (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/4830.html)). So far, nobody wants to own up to it. So instead of the The Register running up a massive phone bill trying to find out, would the telco about to offer such a service please put their hands up and admit to what's going on. Is that too much to ask? ®
