# BT makes profit out of Comic Relief

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/03/19/bt-makes-profit-out-comic-relief/
- Published: 2001-03-19T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

British Telecom has admitted that it has done rather well out of Comic Relief’s
use of premium rate telephone numbers for fundraising. Celebrity Big Brother alone
made around £720,000, of which £280,000 (pre-VAT) will be kept by BT.

 

 

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However, BT made clear that it is prevented from donating its services to any organisation,
even a charity, under the terms of the company’s licence with telephone regulator
Oftel.

 

 

 

 

Read [BT says it has to cash in on Comic Relief](http://www.societyguardian.co.uk/voluntary/news/0,8371,459076,00.html)
by Jamie Wilson at SocietyGuardian, and the Guardian’s leader on the subject, Red
faces over red noses.

 

 

 

 

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