Ofcom - 1994
March BT abolished ‘peak’ rate for local and national direct dialled calls – all weekday daytime calls (8.00am to 6.00pm) would be charged at standard rate.
Oftel set out its three-stage plan to introduce better interconnection arrangements.
Sprint, Telstra and WorldCom International received licences to carry out a number of activities including international simple resale.
Oftel published the draft Numbering Conventions for consultation.
April Orange launched its personal communications network (PCN) services.
June With the publication of the Numbering Conventions, Oftel took over management of the UK Numbering Scheme.
July BT introduced opting-in, using a PIN number, for 0898 ‘adult’ premium rate services.
Access deficit contribution waivers were granted to eight companies of payments they would otherwise have made to BT. The eight were: ACC, WorldCom, COLT, MFS, Energis, Telewest, Videotron and Nynex.
August Parallel running began for the lead up to PhONEday in April 1995. Customers could now dial either 01 or 0 plus the area code for national numbers, and 00 or 010 for international numbers.
September Energis launched its service.
Cellnet launched its GSM (digital) service.
October The Specified Numbering Scheme was determined by the Director General. This completed the process of transferring responsibility for the Numbering Scheme from BT to Oftel. The Scheme was put on the public record, for the first time, at Oftel.
November BT launched its calling line identification services.
December Oftel published A Framework for Effective Competition. This was a wide-ranging consultative document looking at how the regulatory regime needs to evolve. It included four options for changing the interconnection regime and looked at other issues such as capacity charging for interconnection, regulating anti-competitive practices and universal service.
An Oftel investigation into allegations of anti-competitive practice in BT Managed Network Services (BTMNS) proved inconclusive – the matter would be investigated further.
Mercury announced it would be stopping its public call box service progressively during 1995.
Licences were issued to AT&T and Concert (a joint venture between BT and MCI).
BABT approved BT’s metering systems.
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