From: "Colin Reddish" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance alt.consumers.uk-discounts.and.bargains uk.telecom.mobile uk.telecom
Subject: Re: 18866 and protecting your data (or Who Wants Cold Calls?)
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 22:31:55 GMT


"Andy Pandy"  wrote in
message news:414095ac$0$29869$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net...

> OK you can choose to route individual calls via different providers, or
even buy
> a box to do it, but in reality the vast majority of people simply couldn't
be
> arsed - they'll choose one supplier that seems to offer the best rates and
go
> with them for all their calls.

The majority of people who can't be arsed will either stay with BT or their
cable operator. Those who make a bit of effort will possibly move to a CPS
service and maybe make all their calls using that service perrhaps with a
dialler to make it easy for them. However, users of 18866 have to make a
concious decision each time they make a call and so are much more likely to
base that decision on the cost of the call they are about to make. 18866
users are also likely to be more price concious than average.

> At least with 18866, they do actually charge you. TalkTalk are currently
giving
> you a tenner to join (if recommended) with free calls offpeak for a year,
and
> free calls to other TT customers anytime. You could route
> mobile/daytime/international/non-geo calls via someone else and never pay
them a
> penny.

But those who can't be arsed will be unlikely to do that.
-- 
Colin Reddish