Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!warble!vector!nobody From: USEREAFJ%mts.rpi.edu@itsgw.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: (none) Message-ID: Date: 6 Sep 88 03:09:10 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 27 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp (USENET Telecom Moderator) X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 139, message 6 X-Submissions-To: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu (Mailing List Coordinator) X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp (USENET Telecom Moderator) I also tried calling the weather in London and it appears to have been changed to a U.S.-type private provider system. When you call 44-224-8091 you get a recording telling you to call "0898-654-600" for the recording nearest you. Calling 44-1-246-8091 gives you a recording with the number 0898-600-290, which is a service provided by Cablecom. (The one in Scottland sounded like it was operated by a system called "Grandpa", but I may have missed the real name due to the accent or the static...) The recordings let you know that British Telecom stopped their own weather service on June 30th. - I can't seem to reach the 898 numbers, and I have tried 011-44-1-0898m as well as 011-44-1-898, and just 011-44-898-xxx-xxx. Maybe it's restricted to the U.K. only? - Also, dialing 44-246-8091 (IE, leaving out the 1 for London) yileds (yields) the time instead of the weather recording. How do people living in London manage to call the time? I recall when I was in London that one didn't have to dial a 1+ for the time or weather, so if the two numbers are the same except for the 1+, how does British Telecom distinguish between the two? (Or rather, how DID it, now that the weather has been changed?) Or is there a different number callers in London use? - Doug - usereafj@rpitsmts.bitnet (temp.)