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Originally Posted by Horizon
The business part of Mercury was sold onto Npower, but the residential telephone part of Mercury is part of Virgin Media, that never went to Npower. Although as you point out, backbone telephone services (ie 999) are provided by Cable & Wireless.
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I'm pretty sure that our Mercury 2300 service eventually became an NPower service with the little magic routing box (which I have in front of me as I type) but maybe not. Perhaps when the Mercury service ended we signed up with NPower for a while on our BT line.
I remember it was not a happy time with NPower but I can't remember why (my other half might but she's away). I think it was problems with billing and repeatedly getting the Direct Debit details wrong so that the payments never went through.
I know we had to have the magic box replaced once or twice too and I believe that this was a common occurrence. Also, I heard stories of people receiving boxes programmed with the incorrect routing prefix code or account number. All a bit vague now.
Those were frontier days pioneering the deregulation of telecomms with all manner of gadgets, gizmos, prefix codes and calling cards. Back to the future!
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Originally Posted by Nook29
Well, I wasn't just talking about people my age either, but people older and even your age still play games. And games for younger ones are advertised all year round too.
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I mean games like KerPlunk, Operation and Buckaroo* not some plug-in for a Nintendo DS Lite! Those oldies only rear their defective plastic heads in the run up to Christmas.
*Interestingly now all made by MB Games - that's Milton Bradley, not Media Boy!
