Ofcom - 1992
March Mercury PCN merged with Unitel, reducing the number of PCN licensees to two.
April The code of practice for multiline chatlines was revoked when the compensation fund ran out. These ceased to operate.
July PhONEday was postponed from April 1994 to April 1995.
October A driveround survey of quality of service on the cellular networks was launched. It was organised by Oftel and funded by the operators, Cellnet and Vodafone. This was discontinued in October 1993 after three quarters’ results mainly because of funding difficulties.
November Oftel announced additional changes on PhONEday in Bristol, Leeds, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield which would become ‘major city areas’.
Another new class licence, the Self-Provision Licence, gave more freedoms for private circuits including the abolition of the distance restriction between linked premises and the permitting of separate maintenance of serially-connected equipment.
The Director General issued an interconnection determination between Vodafone and Mercury.
September The Director General announced his agreement to the proposal for a 10-digit numbering scheme. At this time the PhONEday changes were proposed for April 1994. Plans for Oftel to take over the UK numbering scheme were also published.
The Director General issued an interconnection determination between Cellnet and Mercury.
December HM Treasury offered for sale up to 1,350 million BT shares. This reduced the Government’s ownership from 47.7% to 25.8%.
The Director General issued a direction to BT aimed at ending the unfair cross-subsidy of its apparatus supply business which included the sale and rental of telephones and other equipment.
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