Quote:A disgraceful response. One of the first paragraphs states:
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Firstly it must be made clear that consumers do have a choice as to whether or not they decide to dial non-geographic numbers (79% of the research sample agreed with this). In the commercial sector, consumers can choose to dial alternative suppliers. In the public sector there are ways to source the underlying ‘geographic’ number. In fact many bodies will provide consumers with alternative numbers on request.
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Pure BS. Downright lies, so beloved by the NTS scammers.
More garbage:
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The second question is ‘Can 0871 numbers be dialled from abroad?’ Of course they cannot. How will businesses that rely predominantly on international trade continue to succeed if they are forced to
migrate onto a 0871 main contact number? It will not look professional if a 0871 number is advertised internationally and callers cannot be connected.
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Well, WT, I live abroad, and can't even call the wretched 0870 numbers, let alone your extreme rip-off 0871 variants. Foreign networks will generally treat any +44 8 number in exactly the same way and will charge, assuming termination is possible, a +44 871 number exactly the same as a +44 844 number.
Windsor may be able to fool Ofcom with this crap, but it can't fool me! Why do the responses from the majority of NTS suppliers appear to be written by people that do not seem to be particularly intelligent?