May Oftel published the payphone standard. This ended BT’s monopoly on the supply of payphones to customers and meant that occupiers of pubs, shops, etc could purchase and/or run their own payphones on their premises.
July The Director General referred the problems relating to multiline chatlines and other message services to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission – Oftel’s first reference.
Mercury launched its first public call box service at Waterloo Station.
Following the delayed implementation of changes to the 0870 and 0871 NGN ranges, originally due to be in place by 1st February 2008, Ofcom have now released their modified proposals. Read more »