Re: BT Caller ID / Openreach Dispute

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:50:07 UTC, "Tim Clark"
<Timothy.Clark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <7568495.tjlen9Rphg@xxxxxx>,
alexd <troffasky@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
rossmck@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Initially I was told there was a "nationwide problem with the caller
ID service" ... needless to say this didn't wash as I work for a
service provider, and all of our lines have working Caller ID!! After
much arguing the explanation I finally got out of them is that there's
an ongoing dispute between BT Retail and BT Openreach which basically
translates as

"Openreach used to give us Caller ID for free, and we charged
customers £4 / quarter for it ... now they want to charge us £1.64 per
quarter and we think we should get it for free (even though all our
competitors have to pay for it)"

So basically they're saying that if they can't make 100% profit on it,
they're not going to offer it at all? Nice work if you can get it!


The arithmetic's not quite right there, in a way that's being most
over-generous to BT. The suggestion being made is that BT Retail are not
happy to make as little as 144% profit on it (buy for £1.64, sell
for £4), but would prefer the old situation of an infinite
percentage profit (buy for £0, sell for £4)

That does ignore the very large number of cases where BT make a loss
(buy for £1.64, sell for £0) now that BT Privacy exists. I expect
there'll be a charge soon.

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