Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!ames!elroy!gryphon!vector!telecom-gateway From: pkh%computer-science.nottingham.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (Kevin Hopkins) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Access Code for Mercury (UK) Message-ID: Date: 5 Jun 89 14:30:04 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: K.Hopkins%computer-science.nottingham.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Lines: 20 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 188, message 2 of 8 In the UK the only company allowed to provide an alternative telephone service to British Telecom (BT) is Mercury (part of Cable & Wireless). Access to Mercury is gained over the ordinary BT exchange line by pressing the Mercury button before dialling a phone number. This Mercury button is really just a memory button which zaps an access code down the line, causing the switch from the BT system to Mercury system, and follows this with the subscribers authorisation code. Could someone please tell me what form the *ACCESS* code to Mercury is? Is it of the form of an area code 0NXX or of a special operator-like code 1XX? It's just one of those things that have been bugging me recently. +--------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | K.Hopkins%cs.nott.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk | Kevin Hopkins, | | or ..!mcvax!ukc!nott-cs!K.Hopkins | Department of Computer Science,| | or in the UK: K.Hopkins@uk.ac.nott.cs | University of Nottingham, | | CHAT-LINE: +44 602 484848 x 3815 | Nottingham, ENGLAND, NG7 2RD | +--------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+ [Moderator's Note: Any problem with simply asking Mercury, if you wish to sign up for the service or use it occassionally? PT]