A great many people do not seem to be aware that the scam with 070 PNS numbers is still continuing despite the supposed ban on revenue sharing with these by Oftel. The problem was that Oftel prohibited revenue sharing for the TERMINATING SUBSCRIBER only and then only temporarily.

These numbers have a range of charge rates rather like overt Premium numbers and some are very expensive. International scam merchants are also using these PNS numbers rather in a similar way to the way in which international premium numbers are being used with Trojan
diallers for internet-based scams targetting UK victims. In some cases telecommunications providers have been targeted themselves for these scams! (Poetic Justice methinks!!) A recent example resulting in legal action is described on http://www.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2004/FCC-04-32A1.html .

There is also some evidence that these (PNS) are now also being used for internet Trojan scams in the UK as are 0870 and 0871. This avoids the increasingly tougher registration problems for the scam merchants with 09 numbers. By using PNS or 0870 or 0871 they avoid the registration problems with 09 and they are practically unassailable, because ICSTIS then have no authority (not that they seem to have any in any case of course even with 09!).

Some of them are REALLY expensive (up to 47½p per minute) - see HERE).

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...and ICSTIS' regulations for 090 numbers only require pricing information for 50p/min or more.

Dorf does well to pay attention to the 070 scam. 

We may well succeed in partly decapitating 087x and 084x, only to find the growth of another revenue sharing monster in the form of 070.

The Hydra of the Greek Mythology was a many-headed monster, which possessed the power to grow new heads if decapitated.  Revenue sharing is the Hydra of the telecom world; the only remedy is the complete removal  of revenue sharing to the 09 classification.  Ofcom consultations do not appear to address the 070 issue.

Hi Dave

I agree.
KK

Some members in here have 0870/1 numbers just to rip-off the companies we deal with. So what about getting a 070 personal number aswell to point to a mobile?

Am I correct in my understanding that the business tariff market now has 'discounted' prices to mobiles, such as being capped at 30p, etc? This would be the equivalent to deals with low price geographical numbers then.

So throw in a 070 number and presumably those discounts don't and can't apply, thus they pay through the nose to call you, just like we do with 084/087.

Of course, the other benefit is that they can't send you text messages or pass on your number to some company who will.

I'm interested in FlexTel. Any recommendations? Their 07017 numbers are 35p/min at all times from BT non-discounted landlines.

Revenue sharing on these numbers is now banned by Ofcom.

Apparently there is a scam running at the mo,where the auto dialer calls your mobile, and rings off after one ring.A 070 number is displayed, you ring it like Billy Muggins and you are kept hanging on paying the expensive pns rate.So somebody,s still making money out of them somewhere!!!