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The company provides online directory enquiries and competes with BT, Google Local, Yelp and the Yell Group (the holding company now known as hibu, as of 2012 [2]) for the directory enquiry market. It is the market leader DQ for finding people. [3] 192.com contains approximately 700 million residential and business records.
The BT foreign directory assistance centre in Grimsby (1996) In the United Kingdom directory enquiries services (sometimes abbreviated as "DQ" [ 4 ] ) are provided by a variety of different companies, with a variety of call charges, each company reached by dialing a six-digit number beginning with 118.
Robertson had spotted the potential of acquiring a freephone number similar to BT's own directory enquiries number of 192. BT spent three years trying to recover the number in legal battles but were finally forced to admit defeat in May 1996. [4] Robertson and his business partner Jonathan Bushby renamed their company (then known as Timeload ...
118 118 is primarily seen as a directory enquiries service, but provides a wider range of options, not only providing numbers to users but also train times, cinema listings and directions. In 2016, 118 118 launched a subscription service app [ 3 ] which costs £2.48 a month for unlimited calls to the number, or £4.98 a month for unlimited ...
It was merged with BT's Business and Public Sector division to form BT Enterprise in October 2018. Wholesale and Ventures provided services to BT's other divisions: BT Consumer, BT Business and Public Sector and EE. It also offered services to media companies and broadcasters, and its ventures side offered a range of products and services.
The service had been run solely by BT. In December 2002, the market was opened up by Oftel for new providers to run additional directory enquiries services in competition. BT's 192 service moved to 118 500, and dialling 192 ceased working in August 2003. New providers used 118 118, 118 247, 118 855 and many others.
BT has successfully defended a £1.3 billion class action over allegations it “disproportionately overcharged” its landline customers. In a judgment released on Thursday, the Competition ...
A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a subscriber identified by ...