{"id":8877,"date":"2015-03-17T10:47:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T10:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=8877"},"modified":"2015-03-17T10:49:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T10:49:22","slug":"bt-fined-800k-for-late-rollout-of-an-improved-text-to-voice-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/03\/bt-fined-800k-for-late-rollout-of-an-improved-text-to-voice-service.html","title":{"rendered":"BT Fined \u00a3800K for Late Rollout of an Improved Text-to-Voice Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national UK telecoms regulator has fined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> \u00a3800,000 after the operator last year failed to make an improved text-to-voice service available to its customers with hearing or speech impairments.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The situation stems from a requirement that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> introduced towards the end of 2012, which forced all of the markets major landline phone and mobile providers to launch a <strong>Next Generation Text Service<\/strong> by 18th April 2014.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> missed this deadline due to &#8220;<em>technical problems with the sound quality of emergency calls<\/em>&#8221; and ended up introducing the service several months late on 24th September 2014.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Claudio Pollack, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>\u2019s Consumer and Content Group Director, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The size of the penalty imposed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> reflects the importance of providing an improved text relay service to its customers with hearing and speech impairments. 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On top of that the regulator also noted that &#8220;<em>the level of financial harm to consumers was limited<\/em>&#8220;, although they also felt as if BT had been given more than enough time to prepare (18 months).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national UK telecoms regulator has fined BT \u00a3800,000 after the operator last year failed to make an improved text-to-voice service available to its customers with hearing or speech impairments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[474,36],"class_list":["post-8877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt","tag-ofcom-regulation"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BT Fined \u00a3800K for Late Rollout of an Improved Text-to-Voice Service - 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