As a new starter, I’m doing everything I’m told. We provide telephone systems for businesses, and I have been asked a few times, to phone up BT, pretend to be the customer/work for the company, and find out when their contract ends with BT, so the salesmen know it is worth chasing the company or not, is this fraud? If so should I do anything about it?
I can’t begin to describe how illegal this is. You should contact the information commissioner’s office and report the company. The law as it stands will blame you and not your company for this.
Just out of interest, where is it you work?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ODV5U87yps&feature=player_embedded
Get smashed.
You mean giving control of the internet to the people who build it and bring it to you doorstep at prices that nearly every American can afford? The travesty. What’s next? Telling 7-11s across the nation what "content" they are required to provide? Radio stations? Hell, why not churches?
Do the police detectives not realise that they should be really trying to find out who the people are responsible from within the mobile phone networks responsible for handing over recordings and information.
Anyone knows journalists have no technical skills - and so they either contact insiders within the telecom companies - or are approached by them. Obviously money is exchanged in return for the recordings/data.
Or is it that certain unscrupulous individuals from within police departments who have access to telecommunication networks are the culprits for leaking data to journalists?
It has been reported that the UK police and security services have the following additional capabilities on mobile telephones, provided by telephone operators, but not covered by the voluntary code.
1. The capability to record to the content of selected conversations.
2. The capability to determine the location[6] of a mobile telephone to within a few yards by using triangulation and multiple base stations.
3. The capability to remotely activate the microphones of some mobile telephones. The UK Financial Times of the 2nd August 2005 [page 4 of the UK edition] reported that the UK police can ask mobile phone operators to download special spying software to a mobile telephone without the user’s knowledge or permission. When this has been done the authorities can turn on the microphone of a mobile telephone and listen to any conversations in its vicinity. This capability only exists for mobile telephones which can accept downloaded software. The telephone must be turned on for the microphone to be activated, but the user does not have to be making a call.
SMS, EMS and MMS Data - retention period 6 months. Calling number, IMEI - Called number, IMEI - Date and time of sending - Delivery receipt - if available - Location data when messages sent and received, in form of lat/long reference.
Email Data – retention period 6 months. Log-on (authentication user name, date and time of log-in/log-off, IP address logged-in from) - sent email (authentication user name, from/to/cc email addresses, date and time sent) - received email (authentication user name, from/to email addresses, date and time received).
ISP Data – retention period 6 months. Log-on (authentication user name, date and time of log-in/log-off, IP address assigned, Dial-up: CLI and number dialed, Always-on: ADSL end point/MAC address (If available).
Web Activity Logs – retention period 4 days. Proxy server logs (date/time, IP address used, URL’s visited, services. The data types here will be restricted solely to Communications Data and exclude content of communication. Web browsing information is retained to the extent that only the host machine or domain name (web site name) is disclosed. For example, within a communication, data identifying www.homeoffice.gov.uk would be traffic data, whereas data identifying www.homeoffice.gov.uk/kbsearch?qt=ripa+traffic=data would be content and not subject to retention.
Other Services - retention period relative to service provided. Instant Message Type Services (log-on/off time) if available.
Collateral Data - retention period relative to data to which it is related. Data needed to interpret other communications data, for example the mapping between cell mast identifiers and their location, and the translation of dialing (as supported by IN networks).
Reporters use their mobile phones a lot & that includes retrieving their Voice Mails by dialing in and entering a simple 4 digit code number … I would agree that they are too dumb to work out how to change their own ‘default’ PIN code = but then so are MP’s, and I bet you can ‘hack’ most voice mail by typing in 1234 ..
what types of competition are in the Uk telecoms industry? would service differentiation and price differentiation be two forms of competition? and who would bear the costs of these forms of competition?
i have an assignment on this for school and it’s really confused me 
mainly the part about who bears the cost.
Friend there’s a More competition in UK superfast broadband space. UK communications regulator Ofcom said this week that BT should allow rivals access to its newly laid fibre network and supporting infrastructure, promoting increased competition in the superfast broadband sector. Cable carrying rival Virgin Media has jumped all over this one, announcing plans to expand its own fibre network across BT’s footprint.
Virgin has been trialling the use of telegraph poles to help extend its fibre deployment in the UK. The new rules from Ofcom would force BT to allow access to the underground ducts and telegraph poles, giving rivals the opportunity to deploy fibre before BT does and to target areas BT does not intend to deploy fibre in.
Another decision forces BT to give competitors access to dedicated virtual links over fibre (virtual unbundling) to further promote competition.
BT has launched its super-fast broadband product and plans to cover 66 per cent of the UK by 2015 and Virgin Media has rolled out 50Mbps to 49 per cent of households and is due to launch its 100Mbps service soon.
And if you want to get more knowledge about this topic you can go to this search http://217.114.165.229/reportinfo.asp?report_id=302693 . All the best for your assignment.
i borrowed my cousins smart sim, and i loaded it up with 50php then i subbed to unlitext costing me 15php. then when i woke up, i received ringtones and stuff. i ignored it, then when i was about to text my friend, message sending failed. bam! i checked my balance, and it says .50php. whatta crap from smart!
im totally pissed.
call them to unsubscribe.
its located at the 2nd floor of victory mall monumento caloocan city.. if you happen to know their telephone number please share it to me. thanks!
There is no Victory Mall branch listed on Globe’s website, but you can call Globe and ask. 7301000 from landline, 211 from your Globe phone.
Here’s another way to get the number (from the electronic yellow pages):
VICTORY CENTRAL MALL
717 Rizal Avenue Old Victory Compound Caloocan Metro Manila
Phone: +63(2)3663169
Call and ask for customer service. They might know the contact numbers of their tenants.
IS the new 3G compatible with any telecoms provider (sim card) on the planet
i would ask the phone company where u got the phone or it’s coustermer service wich you could look up both of theam at iphone.com
my xts getting fixed right now, so im using my old phone can someone please tell me how to get and extra 2000 texts when topping up another 10dollars?
thanks.
Most people on here don’t live in New Zealand. If in the future you want to ask questions that you think you’ll only get answers from people who live in NZ, ask in Travel>New Zealand. Lots of Kiwi’s go there and ask and answer questions so you’ll be more likely to get answers.
Anyway, I found this…
Telecom BoostTXT
Telecom BoostTXT is our text plan for serious texters. If you’re currently enjoying $10TXT it’s easy to swap to Telecom BoostTXT by dialling *333 from your Telecom mobile and following the instructions.
With Telecom BoostTXT you can send 2000 person to person texts to Telecom mobiles for $10 a month.
You pay 20 cents per text for the first 50 texts, and then the next 1950 texts to Telecom mobiles are FREE! That’s up to $200 worth for only $10.
All additional texts to Telecom mobiles will cost 10c each. All texts to other networks cost 20c each.
What I want to do is setup a broker business finding the best deal for residential houses. I need to know how I can get in contact with these companies so I can get the contracts etc. So I can setup this business any ideas anyone out there? I need contact details so I can contact the different companies of telecom companies, gas and electric etc. Any help would be apreciated.
Why not consider being a distributor for Utility Warehouse, otherwise known as Telecom Plus. They’ve done all the leg work finding the best deals for their customers, all you have to do is find the customers.
We’ve used them for over 10 years and their prices are good, which means happy customers. The person who introduced us to their services seems to do quite well from being a distributor.
Just a thought.