Bill Dispute +Thus PLC

[colonelsun]

Many thanks for your replies. I'm recovering from spinal surgery and wasn't able to log on, i am sorry.

We're just about 99.9% sure nobody else has used our phone. Since a fire in the house we are living upstairs while everywhere else gets decorated, somebody would have to physically get past us to use the phone. And anyway, at the time these calls took place my carer was bathing me, but obviously the calls have been made.

Sky Talk tell me they cannot bar premium rate numbers but the local Trading Standards said they could. Two emails to Sky Talk and they've ignored both of them.

Again, thanks for your help.

[kerrianne]

not happy, had the same thing on my bill today, looked it up and found this thread, mine cost £9 and we wasnt even in the day the call was made, its from thus plc but numbers different, its 09067570055 we are a single person working family of a 22 month old and are struggling to pay our private rented house rent and bills and at the moment have £10 to last till the end of the month so this really has topped it all of for me :-( cant get though to sky and dont wanna wait on hold too long as cant afford to ring there number so stuck. not fair

[Isitme]

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This number is used to register for 'Dreamteam' run by the Sun newspaper. You can find out this and a lot of other useful stuff by going here.-
PhonepayPlus - welcome to the PhonepayPlus home page

Put any suspect number in the box and it will usually give you all the details.

[Ke1th]

I'm sure from my experience that Thus PLC is related to Paypal and Ebay.

[reddwarfcrew]

Not sure on that, from their Case Studies, Thus provide services to Sky

Case Studies

[NewsreadeR]

A Sky Digital subscriber can, now obtain a wide range of information, play games, send and receive email and SMS (Short Messaging Service) messages, access the UK telephone directory or place a bet - all through their Sky digibox. A menu detailing the interactive services enables the customer to open up a range of specific screens, such as football, horse racing, cricket or motor racing - outlined in groups for gaming, betting, email, SMS and general information. Tariffs for the individual services vary according to the type of interaction involved.

http://www.thus.net/pdfs/casestudy_sky.pdf

[Skipper]

I have an entry on my Sept bill for £8 being a premium rate call to Thus - 09061570129 . Like others I have never had reason t call Thus PLC. I have emailed Sky asking for an explanation.

[Sonny Cher]

I know that Thus Plc used to be ScottishTelecom which originally branched off from Scottish Power Telecommunications. Thus Plc used to (and may still) rate some SkyTalk calls (although they are actually billed by Sky). This is the connection with Thus Plc I would say. The reason that "Thus Plc" is appearing on your bills may be that their rating system does not contain a label (description) for these numbers and rather than leave this blank on your bills it is substituting "Thus Plc".

I hope this is of some help.

[Isitme]

Thus are a communications firm which handle the business of many large corporations, including Scottish Power, Southern Water and a great many town and city councils. I discovered our local authority use them when I called an 08 number for the Community Police service. As I am with SkyTalk and get