dorf wrote on Nov 15^th, 2005 at 7:17pm:


Sorry dorf this was my misspelling.  I meant to say that to get on the Ofcom Consumer Panel it is absolutely key that Ofcom does not perceive one to be too energetic or determined an existing telecoms consumer activist/campaigner.  Thus by saying nice things about Ofcom supposedly taking pro consumer action on 0870 Martin Lewis would hope to clearly improve his chances of being on good terms with Ofcom.

However Daniel has already told me that he is hoping to send an email about the Ofcom consultation document to a very big email circulation list (much bigger than just those signed up to this forum) in the course of the next few days.  Of course I never know how much cooperation there is between Messrs - and Lewis on such matters given that this site does have a very active sponsorship from the MSE site.  And at the moment that sponsorship does not appear to have been withdrawn.

NGM, so you mean that Ofcom only want people on the Ofcom consumer panel who are not hostile to the current failures and outrageous decisions of Ofcom? In other words they want individuals who claim to be consumers, but consider Ofcom to be doing a good regulatory job?

I find it difficult to believe that there could be any such mythical people who are real citizen consumers! I suppose though on that basis if Martin Lewis has gone cold to his original position of intending to campaign against the scams and evidently navigated something of a "U" turn he might be a suitable candidate. I now therefore think I understand your point.

[Ofcom must find that there is an extreme difficulty in finding such candidates for their panel, unless they again get some of the employees of telcos to pose in their extra-mural role as "citizen consumers"?]

I've got two copies - wonder why 

Quote:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=1149954

This is exactly what we need. Many thanks to the MSE if he reads this. Given the wide email circulation, this could have a very positive effect for the campaign to get rid of the scam numbers.

Great news!  As well as the widely circulated email, I see the above newly created thread (on 21/11) has already been viewed 1200+ times !

Thanks to MSE Martin for supporting the cause in this way!

bbb_uk wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2005 at 5:05pm:


He doesn't highlight the danger of all the 0870 numbers turning into 0844 due to Ofcom's useless weaknesss in alllowing these numbers to continue at 5p per minute at all times outside ICTSIS control.  He also also doesn't highlight the insanity of allowing 0871 to continue to be used for 10p per minute revenue share when most people will just think "0870 and 0871 they just cost the same mate dun they".

So no I don't think Martin's articles is not good enough as he should have told people exactly what was wrong with the proposals and exactly how to condemn them and why they needed to be condemned.