These were first published some months ago, with Compton/Newbury and
Markyate/Tring numbers
2 of each, and intended that one would be used from landlines, one
from mobiles, because of some features of set-up of call properties
that wasn't really explained, or I didn't understand
My first call to one of thse numbers connected me to someone in
Switzerland, so I've not bothered with it since, and from occasional
remarks on the internet, it didn't seem like I am the only one with
this experience
After more discussion on another forum, I spoke to Switzerland twice
today, the second call at some length
They have received about 15 calls a day from the UK because of this
routing glitch, and are unsurprisingly rather frustrated about it. And
I'd guess that might not include calls to their answerphone at night,
with no message left
Their number is not in the least similar to the Pre-Dial access, like
just putting a +41 in front. I also gave him the number I had called
I hope that Pre-Dial will urgently investigate this problem and
prevent any further inadvertent harassment of these poor people.
On May 10, 3:28 pm, andy <andy.gg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> These were first published some months ago, with Compton/Newbury and
> Markyate/Tring numbers
>
> 2 of each, and intended that one would be used from landlines, one
> from mobiles, because of some features of set-up of call properties
> that wasn't really explained, or I didn't understand
>
> My first call to one of thse numbers connected me to someone in
> Switzerland, so I've not bothered with it since, and from occasional
> remarks on the internet, it didn't seem like I am the only one with
> this experience
>
> After more discussion on another forum, I spoke to Switzerland twice
> today, the second call at some length
>
> They have received about 15 calls a day from the UK because of this
> routing glitch, and are unsurprisingly rather frustrated about it. And
> I'd guess that might not include calls to their answerphone at night,
> with no message left
>
> Their number is not in the least similar to the Pre-Dial access, like
> just putting a +41 in front. I also gave him the number I had called
>
> I hope that Pre-Dial will urgently investigate this problem and
> prevent any further inadvertent harassment of these poor people.
I understand this has been resolved, and will delete these posts from
the archive
andy wrote:
> On May 10, 3:28 pm, andy <andy.gg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> These were first published some months ago, with Compton/Newbury and
>> Markyate/Tring numbers
>>
>> 2 of each, and intended that one would be used from landlines, one
>> from mobiles, because of some features of set-up of call properties
>> that wasn't really explained, or I didn't understand
>>
>> My first call to one of thse numbers connected me to someone in
>> Switzerland, so I've not bothered with it since, and from occasional
>> remarks on the internet, it didn't seem like I am the only one with
>> this experience
>>
>> After more discussion on another forum, I spoke to Switzerland twice
>> today, the second call at some length
>>
>> They have received about 15 calls a day from the UK because of this
>> routing glitch, and are unsurprisingly rather frustrated about it. And
>> I'd guess that might not include calls to their answerphone at night,
>> with no message left
>>
>> Their number is not in the least similar to the Pre-Dial access, like
>> just putting a +41 in front. I also gave him the number I had called
>>
>> I hope that Pre-Dial will urgently investigate this problem and
>> prevent any further inadvertent harassment of these poor people.
>
> I understand this has been resolved, and will delete these posts from
> the archive
"andy" <andy.ggrps@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:1178807324.804617.201250@l77g2000hsb.googlegr oups.com...
> These were first published some months ago, with Compton/Newbury and
> Markyate/Tring numbers
>
> 2 of each, and intended that one would be used from landlines, one
> from mobiles, because of some features of set-up of call properties
> that wasn't really explained, or I didn't understand
>
> My first call to one of thse numbers connected me to someone in
> Switzerland, so I've not bothered with it since, and from occasional
> remarks on the internet, it didn't seem like I am the only one with
> this experience
>
> After more discussion on another forum, I spoke to Switzerland twice
> today, the second call at some length
>
> They have received about 15 calls a day from the UK because of this
> routing glitch, and are unsurprisingly rather frustrated about it. And
> I'd guess that might not include calls to their answerphone at night,
> with no message left
>
> Their number is not in the least similar to the Pre-Dial access, like
> just putting a +41 in front. I also gave him the number I had called
>
> I hope that Pre-Dial will urgently investigate this problem and
> prevent any further inadvertent harassment of these poor people.
>
Hi,
[Joke?] I wonder if their is any Finareaesque coincidence about it being a
Swiss phone number (perhaps the offices or number of someone Finarea)?
It would be interesting to know the origin of callers receiving this strange
re-direction as I don't think any pedestrian callers (presumably BT landline
or NTL landline) receive this behaviour.
On May 18, 5:46 am, "News Reader" <n...@email.invalid> wrote:
> "andy" <andy.gg...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1178807324.804617.201250@l77g2000hsb.googlegr oups.com...
>
>
>
>
>
> > These were first published some months ago, with Compton/Newbury and
> > Markyate/Tring numbers
>
> > 2 of each, and intended that one would be used from landlines, one
> > from mobiles, because of some features of set-up of call properties
> > that wasn't really explained, or I didn't understand
>
> > My first call to one of thse numbers connected me to someone in
> > Switzerland, so I've not bothered with it since, and from occasional
> > remarks on the internet, it didn't seem like I am the only one with
> > this experience
>
> > After more discussion on another forum, I spoke to Switzerland twice
> > today, the second call at some length
>
> > They have received about 15 calls a day from the UK because of this
> > routing glitch, and are unsurprisingly rather frustrated about it. And
> > I'd guess that might not include calls to their answerphone at night,
> > with no message left
>
> > Their number is not in the least similar to the Pre-Dial access, like
> > just putting a +41 in front. I also gave him the number I had called
>
> > I hope that Pre-Dial will urgently investigate this problem and
> > prevent any further inadvertent harassment of these poor people.
>
> Hi,
>
> [Joke?] I wonder if their is any Finareaesque coincidence about it being a
> Swiss phone number (perhaps the offices or number of someone Finarea)?
>
> It would be interesting to know the origin of callers receiving this strange
> re-direction as I don't think any pedestrian callers (presumably BT landline
> or NTL landline) receive this behaviour.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> News Reader- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
There are millions of people in Switzerland, so why must it be
Finarea?
"andy" <andy.ggrps@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:1179524578.939878.190750@l77g2000hsb.googlegr oups.com...
> On May 18, 5:46 am, "News Reader" <n...@email.invalid> wrote:
>> "andy" <andy.gg...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1178807324.804617.201250@l77g2000hsb.googlegr oups.com...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > These were first published some months ago, with Compton/Newbury and
>> > Markyate/Tring numbers
>>
>> > 2 of each, and intended that one would be used from landlines, one
>> > from mobiles, because of some features of set-up of call properties
>> > that wasn't really explained, or I didn't understand
>>
>> > My first call to one of thse numbers connected me to someone in
>> > Switzerland, so I've not bothered with it since, and from occasional
>> > remarks on the internet, it didn't seem like I am the only one with
>> > this experience
>>
>> > After more discussion on another forum, I spoke to Switzerland twice
>> > today, the second call at some length
>>
>> > They have received about 15 calls a day from the UK because of this
>> > routing glitch, and are unsurprisingly rather frustrated about it. And
>> > I'd guess that might not include calls to their answerphone at night,
>> > with no message left
>>
>> > Their number is not in the least similar to the Pre-Dial access, like
>> > just putting a +41 in front. I also gave him the number I had called
>>
>> > I hope that Pre-Dial will urgently investigate this problem and
>> > prevent any further inadvertent harassment of these poor people.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> [Joke?] I wonder if their is any Finareaesque coincidence about it being
>> a
>> Swiss phone number (perhaps the offices or number of someone Finarea)?
>>
>> It would be interesting to know the origin of callers receiving this
>> strange
>> re-direction as I don't think any pedestrian callers (presumably BT
>> landline
>> or NTL landline) receive this behaviour.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> News Reader- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> There are millions of people in Switzerland, so why must it be
> Finarea?
>
> It was a private house that I spoke to
>
>
Hi,
Don't worry it was just a very very silly joke.
Apologies as / if necessary.
Best wishes,
News Reader
P.s. I think it was combining the absolute strangeness of Pre-Dial choosing
to route (divert) certain / such calls to any valid destination, let alone
one in an international country, and then a private residence at that? I
would have thought presenting some network tone, or routing to an out of
service UK number might have been more sensible? Still, in any event, it was
taking all that strangeness and the fact that it was routing to a Swiss
private residence that led me to be a bit silly and think ( / suggest as a
rather silly joke) that what with Finarea having taken the UK telecoms
sector by quite a storm, that it was a jokey retaliatory step / strike by
routing the incorrect call originators to the Pre-Dial number to one of the
Finarea bosses grannies.
On 12 May 2007, Paul Cupis <paul@cupis.co.uk> wrote:
> andy wrote:
>> On May 10, 3:28 pm, andy <andy.gg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> These were first published some months ago, with Compton/Newbury
>>> and Markyate/Tring numbers
>>>
>>> 2 of each, and intended that one would be used from landlines,
>>> one from mobiles, because of some features of set-up of call
>>> properties that wasn't really explained, or I didn't understand
>>>
>>> My first call to one of thse numbers connected me to someone in
>>> Switzerland, so I've not bothered with it since, and from
>>> occasional remarks on the internet, it didn't seem like I am the
>>> only one with this experience
>>>
>>> After more discussion on another forum, I spoke to Switzerland
>>> twice today, the second call at some length
>>>
>>> They have received about 15 calls a day from the UK because of
>>> this routing glitch, and are unsurprisingly rather frustrated
>>> about it. And I'd guess that might not include calls to their
>>> answerphone at night, with no message left
>>>
>>> Their number is not in the least similar to the Pre-Dial access,
>>> like just putting a +41 in front. I also gave him the number I
>>> had called
>>>
>>> I hope that Pre-Dial will urgently investigate this problem and
>>> prevent any further inadvertent harassment of these poor people.
>>
>> I understand this has been resolved, and will delete these posts
>> from the archive
>
> Why?
>
> On 12 May 2007, Paul Cupis <paul@cupis.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> andy wrote:
>>> On May 10, 3:28 pm, andy <andy.gg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>> These were first published some months ago, with Compton/Newbury and
>>>> Markyate/Tring numbers
>>>>
>>>> 2 of each, and intended that one would be used from landlines, one
>>>> from mobiles, because of some features of set-up of call properties
>>>> that wasn't really explained, or I didn't understand
>>>>
>>>> My first call to one of thse numbers connected me to someone in
>>>> Switzerland, so I've not bothered with it since, and from occasional
>>>> remarks on the internet, it didn't seem like I am the only one with
>>>> this experience
>>>>
>>>> After more discussion on another forum, I spoke to Switzerland twice
>>>> today, the second call at some length
>>>>
>>>> They have received about 15 calls a day from the UK because of this
>>>> routing glitch, and are unsurprisingly rather frustrated about it. And
>>>> I'd guess that might not include calls to their answerphone at night,
>>>> with no message left
>>>>
>>>> Their number is not in the least similar to the Pre-Dial access, like
>>>> just putting a +41 in front. I also gave him the number I had called
>>>>
>>>> I hope that Pre-Dial will urgently investigate this problem and
>>>> prevent any further inadvertent harassment of these poor people.
>>>
>>> I understand this has been resolved, and will delete these posts from
>>> the archive
>>
>> Why?
>>
>>
> How?
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:50:54 +0100, Dave <Dave@nospam.thanks> wrote:
>On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:42:33 +0100, Lem wrote:
>
>> On 12 May 2007, Paul Cupis <paul@cupis.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> andy wrote:
>>>> On May 10, 3:28 pm, andy <andy.gg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>> These were first published some months ago, with Compton/Newbury and
>>>>> Markyate/Tring numbers
>>>>>
>>>>> 2 of each, and intended that one would be used from landlines, one
>>>>> from mobiles, because of some features of set-up of call properties
>>>>> that wasn't really explained, or I didn't understand
>>>>>
>>>>> My first call to one of thse numbers connected me to someone in
>>>>> Switzerland, so I've not bothered with it since, and from occasional
>>>>> remarks on the internet, it didn't seem like I am the only one with
>>>>> this experience
>>>>>
>>>>> After more discussion on another forum, I spoke to Switzerland twice
>>>>> today, the second call at some length
>>>>>
>>>>> They have received about 15 calls a day from the UK because of this
>>>>> routing glitch, and are unsurprisingly rather frustrated about it. And
>>>>> I'd guess that might not include calls to their answerphone at night,
>>>>> with no message left
>>>>>
>>>>> Their number is not in the least similar to the Pre-Dial access, like
>>>>> just putting a +41 in front. I also gave him the number I had called
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope that Pre-Dial will urgently investigate this problem and
>>>>> prevent any further inadvertent harassment of these poor people.
>>>>
>>>> I understand this has been resolved, and will delete these posts from
>>>> the archive
>>>
>>> Why?
>>>
>>>
>> How?
>
>When?
>
What??
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