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| On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:40:47 +0100, "Frank Stacey"
| wrote:
|
| wrote in message
| ...
| Tiny print on a letter and e-mail just received from BT says that the
| 1571 standard service is going to cost £1 per month if you don't make
| at least 2 charged calls per month. Those who use their landline only
| for broadband or only for receiving calls could get an unexpected
| addition to their bill. At the moment http://www.bt.com/youraccount
| till says it's free and provides no way to disable it, but watch that
| space for a chance to do so.
|
| Chris
|
| 1571 has always incurred a cost - 5p to discover the person you want to talk to is engaged!!!
|
| Thats not a charge for 1571 ...I presume you mean if you press 3 which
| is just laziness.

No - ring someone - no ring just a canned voice answers. Put the phone down immediately.
My BT bill shows a charge for a call lasting 1 or 2 seconds. This is 1571 I believe.

Frank