If you are a BT customer, be on your guard!
BT is warning customers about a series of phone scams involving people claiming to be calling from the company.
If you are targeted, the scammers will call you and warn that your account is in arrears.
They then ask for bank or credit card details to settle the [...]

Essential Business Telecom Services
Introduction
Telecommunications technology – in all forms, and certainly not least in business – continues to advance at an alarming rate.
Business people, today, are faced with a plethora of existing, convergent or entirely new technologies, and must make important, informed decisions to safeguard the future of their businesses.
New telecommunications technologies, products and services [...]

LLU stands for LOCAL LOOP UNBUNDLING
The Local Loop connects your telephone socket or switchboard to the telephone exchange.
In the past, this has always been owned by BT.
Since telecom deregulation was introduced to break the BT monopoly and create free market competiton and a "level playing field", call traffic between telephone exchanges was allowed to pass [...]

It used to be that BT owned a monopoly on landlines, since they built up the infrastructure to supply them. A landline is the final connection from the BT Exchange to your premises, also known as the Local Loop.
On 1st August 2006 Ofcom allowed other telecom companies to supply landline services. This is also called [...]

On 1st August 2006, Ofcom, the UK Telecoms Regulator, ended the formal controls on the cost of phone line rentals and calls from BT.
This leaves all phone companies (including BT themselves) free to set their own retail prices for consumers.
So now you, not the regulator, are free to decide whether you think a phone company [...]