On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:55:21 +0100, Cynic ate alphabet spaghetti and shat
out:

> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:48:59 +0000 (UTC), Spamtastic Spastic
>  wrote:
> 
>>>> You can hardly expect a caller to search through the telephone book
>>>> to see whether the number they intend to call appears anywhere in it,
>>>> can you?
>  
>>> No - many of them use automatic diallers, so they can run through the
>>> entire numbering range of an exchange if they want to.
> 
> Exactly my point.
> 
>>No way! Do they have the 16K ram pack then?
> 
> No need for any RAM at all.  They dial the numbers sequentially
> regardless of whether the number is in service, and stop every time the
> equipment detects a ring tone.

Yeah, but the program to do that is not going to sit in a standard 1k 
ZX81, is it smart arse ;-)

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Canceled my BT account a few weeks back and 
yesterday, the agreed termination day,  they cut 
me off.  Well, I've still got a dialing tone, but 
can't receive incoming or make outgoing calls and 
my broadband account is still active.  Is this normal?

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:34:54 +0100, Ruth ate alphabet spaghetti and shat
out:

> Canceled my BT account a few weeks back and yesterday, the agreed
> termination day,  they cut me off.  Well, I've still got a dialing tone,
> but can't receive incoming or make outgoing calls and my broadband
> account is still active.  Is this normal?

It's normal (ish). You have 'soft' dialtone - won't bore you with they 
why's of it.

The broadband is a product supplied over a telephone line - that is on 
top of it. It can work with the line being electrically 'dead'. Your 
broadband will probably stay active whilst it is still in contract. The 
Broadband provider is not necessarily the same as the voice provider.

I've been gone from BT for a while, so I'm not sure if they now leave the 
jumpers in for broadband (thus you will have sync but probably no 
service) or if they still cease them. Kraftee will be along in a minute 
or two and will be able to clarify that.



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"Ruth"  wrote in message 
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> Canceled my BT account a few weeks back and yesterday, the agreed 
> termination day,  they cut me off.  Well, I've still got a dialing tone, 
> but can't receive incoming or make outgoing calls and my broadband account 
> is still active.  Is this normal?

Yes.

On Sep 22, 7:34 pm, Ruth  wrote:
> Canceled my BT account a few weeks back and
> yesterday, the agreed termination day,  they cut
> me off.  Well, I've still got a dialing tone, but
> can't receive incoming or make outgoing calls and
> my broadband account is still active.  Is this normal?

Ruth - The broadband usually stops working a few days after the line
cease (soft dial tone) has completed, as the jumpers are taken out at
the exchange but as this is a manual activity it's not done straight
away.