From: Ian Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 11:43:10AM +0100, Nick Humphries wrote: >> See http://www.clara.net as >> I expect they'll have a big announcement about it. > >Well they do, but it doesn't tell you how they achieve it. Do you call >them up on your normal BT line or what? Here's what I know from memory... (Now that's a useless phrase, isn't it? What would I know that isn't stored in my memory?) This is how I understand it, and it's a bit wooly, but bear with me. FreeTime is available to BT phone customers only, and looks to stay that way. You call the usual number you do to log on, and, if your phone number is on some sort of list, that call is redirected elsewhere so that you can be billed properly - i.e. Freetime soaks up whatever discount you have before the redirection is disabled (i.e. you use up all your 80 hours or whatever package limits there are). The downside of this is that you can only access ClaraNET using FreeTime from a single BT phone number, but for most people that's no big deal. Most of this is irrelevant to the end-user though. All they need to know is they pay a bit extra and they get lots of free time and save money on phone bills. Nick
