Well I suppose there may perhaps have been people who argued that the loss of the German concentration camps would lead to the loss of many jobs and vital economic activity in the German economy.  A firm caled Topf & Sons would certainly have been one.

Its the same old lies here. Allegedly difficult to change numbers on stationery, not enough numbers on 0871 to migrate to (which is clearly where they expect most of their customers to go) etc.  And the trouble is sleepy Ofcom usually falls for all these lies hook, line and sinker.  Or rather they prefer to fall for these lies.

If its really so painful to change numbers then how did all these people change off their geographic numbers in the first place?  Why by just having an announcement on their old number asking you to call their new number and that's how it could be done again.  These number announcement services charge a flat quarerly rate to the called party.  All the stuff on OCP and TCP and revenue share doesn't apply.

Why is there a shortage of 0871 numbers then?  Surely there are 10 million of them available unless I have missed something (and the 0872 and 0873 after that as Dave points out)?  Also its revealing that most of his members want to go 0871 and not 0844.

I suppose there would even be people out there representing the White Slavers Association putting in arguments as to why 18 year old girls not being able to be trafficked into prostitution from Eastern Europe was bad for the uk economy!

Dave wrote on Dec 9^th, 2005 at 4:54pm:

No.
But the industry must think that we are and that it is worth a try - after all it worked in defeating Oftel over expanding the 0800 range and so now we have six and seven digit 0800 numbers.