Ever since BT directory enquiry was privatised, I have wowed never ever to make any directory enquiry even if my life was drenched out of blood!
118 and all others are scums and rip offs, may their business decline rapidly and die of a sudden death, thats my wish.
On another point, I had to call a friend who went abroad for a month and left me to mind his house, and gave me his contact details abroad, so in the middle of my minding his house there was an important issue that needed an urgent contact, so I used my BT Landline phone to make direct dialled international call to Nigeria, where my friend had gone to set up some oil import business, I found that although he had given me a correct number, but my BT phone would not connect through....I can understand why....as Nigeria is full of scammers, so I called BT operator and asked her why I cannot make this call, she said do you want me to try and see if that number is ringing on her end, as she tried, she said oh well the number is ringing OK, and asked me if I would like her to put through, and naturally I replied yes please, not thinking there would be a huge charge! so in the end I had a bill for £98.00 for that single call lasting about 40 minutes speaking to my friend, not knowing I was being charged prime rate per minute because it was an operator connected call!
Ever since then I am more careful. Scums are everywhere here and there trying to rip each other for survival! day light robbers!
After much protesting, BT knocked 50% off, still not good enough, but better than nothing, and needless to say I left BT soon afterwards when their connection charge for local calls came to almost 20p, irrespective of if you had dialled a wrong number and spoke to someone and realised you had dialled an incorrect number, so a call lasting 5 seconds cost you 20p! ridiculous, now a days there should be no connection charges as all connections are solid state, i.e. no diabolic moving parts like in the old exchanges where relays and solenoids were used for routing and switching calls.
No wonder these calling cards are good for making calls abroad, you could call Mobile phones to Nigeria or any country abroad for less than 2p a minute now with no connection charge, buy a calling card for say £3.00 and you get 50% extra free time, and that makes calls cost 1 p a minute, a £3.00 card can allow you to make a call abroad for more than an hour!
