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You may be wandering What the fuck or Who the fuck OFTEL is, well...

OFTEL stands for the 'Office Of Telecommunications' and it is basically the 
"neutral" organisation orignally setup by the government when the British
Telecommunications Privatisation act was laid down in law.  OFTEL was basically
created to make sure all is running well and that the numerous fone companies
(mainly BT) stick to the Monopolies and Mergers committee Acts, which basically
means that they exist to stop one fone company dominating the market by offering
ridiculously different prices that other companies.

OFTEL are like the g0ds of pricing within the fone companies and although they do
not directly effect the prices that companies charge for fonecalls they can 
indirectly make a difference by saying that the prices are breaching the acts 
conditions, although this rarely happens.

OFTEL does not just regulate BT, it regulates all the other fone companies - 
Mercury, Orange, AT&T, Cable and Wireless etc. and if OFTEL do not like the prices 
that the companies they charge they are well within their rights to make it known, 
and therefore cause certain problems within the fone companies.

Oftel also indirectly own ALL the numbering space in the country, from normal fone
Area Codes to the expensive Service Networks, although they delegate 98% of this 
space to BT due to BT's massive hold over the UK fone network. 

Although this text has been very short, it is important for people to know who
indirectly controls the fone prices that affect our everyday lifes.  It is clear
from this text alone that the truth is OFTEL owns us all, and BT still live in
the shadows of OFTEL although most people do not see this truth...

OFTEL can be contacted at the following Address, Fone Number, Fax Number...

Office of Telecommunications
50 Ludgate Hill
LONDON   
EC4M 7JJ

Tel: 0171 634-8888       
Fax: 0171 634-8943

Jf_
JF@linenoise.org
http://www.linenoise.org