Thought this might interest you...

http://money.guardian.co.uk/news_/story/0,1456,1685201,00.html?gusrc=ticker-103704


Quote:

The professional-looking [website] billed itself as "The UK's best source for digital video equipment" and a telephone number on the site began with the central London code 0207. In reality it was owned and run out of Waltham, Massachusetts by an American company called Nepco and calls were routed through to a call centre abroad, thought to be in Bangalore.

It looks as though using NGNs to distribute a call across a network isn't so necessary after all.  :-X

:o

longusername wrote on Jan 12^th, 2006 at 8:04pm:

It looks as though using NGNs to distribute a call across a network isn't so necessary after all.  :-X :o

Interesting to note that a truly fraudulent firm operating in a highly competitive electronic goods marketplace perceives customers as having greater confidence in a geograpic 020 number.

It shows that the 084/7 calls only thrive because most customers are actually locked in to having to make them.