ADSL South Africa - Carrier Pre-Selection

This section of ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa) is dedicated to the importance of Carrier Pre-Selection in the building of a consumer friendly telecoms regime.

'Carrier preselect is a term relating to the telecommunications industry. It is the process whereby a telephone subscriber whose telephone line is maintained by one company, usually a former monopoly  provider (e.g. BT), can choose to have some of their calls automatically routed across a different telephone company's network (e.g. Talk Talk) without needing to enter a special code or special equipment' (Wikipedia).

In other words, Carrier Pre-Selection gives the telephone subscriber a choice when it comes to the automatic routing of calls across the telephone networks of different telephone companies.

The idea with Carrier Pre-Selection from a consumer's perspective is to save money by having one's calls routed via the cheapest telephone networks. This essential in the building of a consumer friendly telecoms regime, not only because one saves money in the process,  but because one saves money that can be spend elsewhere (school fees, food, etc.).