From http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199899/cmselect/cmpubacc/449/44903.htm We were concerned that a completion date of September 1999 was a little too close for comfort and asked OFTEL what they were doing to ensure that there was no slippage and that any late problems emerging were resolved in good time. OFTEL told us that by the end of June 1999 the vast majority of individual telecommunications companies would have completed the testing necessary to ensure that their primary systems, the basic telecommunications networks, had been tested and were millennium compliant. The work to be done over the following three months was generally to do with things like billing and the roll-out of systems which had proved to be compliant. Nevertheless OFTEL would be working very closely during that period with the individual operators and the Telecom Operators Forum to ensure that there was no slippage in the targets for the small percentage of work remaining to be done. OFTEL told us that there was a very small component of less important business in some operators and a small proportion of business in one operator which would run past June 1999. This meant that OFTEL would not be able to give 100 per cent compliant certification until the end of September 1999.[19] OFTEL did not think that there was a big risk of slippage beyond this date.[20]

-- Rob Somerville (merville@globalnet.co.uk), August 25, 1999

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Hi,Rob,

We do about 40% of our business via international phone & fax.The telecomm picture there is not so great.Ditto international delivery & mail services. Got a contingency plan ???

-- Chris (griffen@globalnet.co.uk), August 25, 1999.