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Re: Truphone v4.0 adds ‘Truphone Anywhere’

bensmith — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:45:12 -0000

No specific examples to hand, but remembering back a few years Orange particularly (although I don't think it was just them) blocked numbers that attempted to use calling cards and the like. It may be an out-of-date practice now - I think it maybe related to 0800 numbers back when they were free on some tariffs.

Re: Truphone v4.0 adds ‘Truphone Anywhere’

se12jr — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:53:42 -0000

I would think that the view of the UK courts would be that any attempt to block a normal UK geographic number would be illegal - under the same argument that T-Mobile were ordered to route traffic to normal Truphone mobile numbers. Have you any examples or experiences of carriers blocking call through services? If so, what numbering/tariffs are the call through services using?

Re: Truphone v4.0 adds ‘Truphone Anywhere’

bensmith — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:19:01 -0000

James: Any thoughts on the network operators trying to block these numbers as dial-thru providers?

Re: Truphone v4.0 adds ‘Truphone Anywhere’

se12jr — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:52:16 -0000

Hey Steve - why don't you try it - and report back?

The UK call through numbers are normal geographic (01xxx/02xxx) numbers and so will not cost a fortune or be excluded from your inclusive bundles.

Re: Truphone v4.0 adds ‘Truphone Anywhere’

smstextnews — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:40:04 -0000

They need to set themselves free from WiFi... Truphone on the sim card will
then be usable for the majority.

Re: Truphone v4.0 adds ‘Truphone Anywhere’

SteveRowlands — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:17:01 -0000

I suppose I really should try this TruPhone thing out.

Is it really worth all the hype it seems to get?

Re: Truphone v4.0 adds ‘Truphone Anywhere’

bensmith — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:09:06 -0000

Yep... mine is the 01354 prefix which is the Doddington area.

Re: Truphone v4.0 adds ‘Truphone Anywhere’

rickyc — Wed, 28 May 2008 04:07:21 -0000

but think about how crystal clear the first leg of the call will be :P

Re: Truphone v4.0 adds ‘Truphone Anywhere’

smstextnews — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:00:04 -0000

:: puts away his unlimited landline minutes and 3,000 any network calls
account ::

Re: Truphone v4.0 adds ‘Truphone Anywhere’

bensmith — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:58:04 -0000

Who do we know who fits that description? :-)

Re: Truphone v4.0 adds ‘Truphone Anywhere’

rickyc — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:54:20 -0000

no worries cheers ben! really cool for people who have no good data plans then and lots of landline minutes!

Re: Truphone v4.0 adds ‘Truphone Anywhere’

bensmith — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:44:05 -0000

Don't think so - it's an 01xxx xxxxxx format. My handset's just died, but I'll confirm tomorrow.

Re: Truphone v4.0 adds ‘Truphone Anywhere’

rickyc — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:35:28 -0000

do we know the number being used for the UK? is it one of those dogey IOM numbers that t-mobile love to charge a bomb for?