The consultation is closed, my own MP, & MSP have been bombarded with emails from me  - the MP has shown support, the MSP has ignored me (but he will pay for this!!) - and I still refuse to do any business with companies using 0870.

Whay else can we do now?  Do we just sit and wait for Ofcom to do it's usual fudge and 'kick the matter into touch' for another couple of years?

Any suggestions?

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I've been thinking about this too.  One suggestion I had was developing a thread similar to the one encouraging consultation responses, but one called something like


I'd be grateful of other ideas for its content but so far I've thought this post could gather together links to help with:

* emailing your mp to sign up to the anti-0870 parliamentary motion

* complaining to the company whose 0870 you have to use (including suggested template letters/email that would need to be personalised before sending)

* making freedom of information requests

* encouraging all of these actions from interested others on other forums e.g the home phones board on MSE


Such a thread would be a tool-kit of actions that like-minded people could take and it would take most of the donkey work out of doing it. 

To highlight this, some of us could include a link to it from our signatures.  It would be helpful if akin to the consultation countdown clock, there should be big, bold links to it from the Homepage and from the Search For A Number page.

Obviously the more people we can help in this way, the greater impact we can have, certainly more than the 30 or so forum regulars could achieve by ourselves!   I feel we've got to be more active in encouraging others to be active.

Any feedback appreciated.

Tanllan wrote on Dec 8^th, 2005 at 10:42am:

And 070.

I agree we need to mention all those prefixes. If Ofcom gets its finger out and makes pricing information on adverts compulsory, it might help spur on the notion that 'inclusive' call packages don't include these calls. Although I think they'll be people who'll think that they will be included.

And, of course, Non-geographic Numbers can be abbreviated to NGN - or Next Generation Networks.
Why do I have this idea that people might (will?) try to slide out of it?

Nice stats, AJR, but my only concern is that by 'disclosing this at the end of your 0870 call', you will also be prolonging the 0870 call and giving even more profit to the scamsters!
This would be the kind of table that should appear in adverts in newspapers - could a fund not be inaugurated where we might take an ad in a newspaper to display the scam?
Anybody know anything about these things?

idb wrote on Dec 10^th, 2005 at 12:40pm:



Well, I'm sure more people use 1899 than the BT light user scheme which most companies justify 0870, and 0845 by saying that it saves this group of people more money, and many still think 0845 is cheaper than 01/02 numbers.  If they can use a minority group of customers for an argument for keeping the numbers, then we can use a minority group of customers to show what a rip off 0845/0870 numbers are!!