Marinecall - service now ceased
The Met Office has now removed these services.
Review of future provision of MarineCall and MetFAX service
Background
The purpose of this note is to consult with users of MarineCall and MetFAX over some proposed future changes to the scope of service provided.
The Met Office routinely reviews the methods by which customers access its services, to ensure that dissemination best matches user need. From this review, the following changes to service are proposed.
MetFAX
MetFAX provides weather information via fax machine. Each call costs 75 pence per minute, which is charged to recover the administration costs of our third party provider.
Our review has concluded that use of MetFAX has been steadily declining over recent years, and is now at such a level that suggests there is very little demand for the service. With universal access to the public internet and the increasing availability of internet enabled mobile devices to retrieve briefing information, fax is increasingly becoming a redundant technology.
MarineCall and MetFAX Proposal: Given the decline in popularity of telephone and fax services and the declining year on year usage of both MarineCall and MetFAX, the Met Office has now removed these services.
