Avid campaigners against NGN might be interested in reading this companies press release defending them.
Visit www.open-telecom.co.uk/press/index.html and read press release dated 28/2/05.

In which they deviously compare the cost of a call to an 0870 number with 'BT standard retail rates, excl. VAT' - which 99% of UK residential customers were forced to move from on 1/7/04.

And, in contravention (now) of ASA guidance, they state:
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0870 numbers For an end user, the cost of dialling an 0870 number from a landline is equivalent to calling a national geographic number.

If I was to use BT to make my calls, the cost of calling a national geographic number on a weekday would be 3p/minute incl. VAT and the cost of calling an 0870 number would be more than 2½ times that - 7.51p.minute incl. VAT.