First of all I would like to thank support for getting me back in to Say no to 0870 having been locked out!

One of the best arguments I've used against organisations using 0870/0845 numbers is that I can't use them abroad and we have all usually been succesful in using the number supplied for overseas callers.

I recently rec'd a document from Computershare who always provide a UK and an non-UK number. The UK number is always an 0870 and the non-Uk a Geographic number. However in the latest document they say the following:

"If you require assistance please telephone 0870 703 6266 (or +44 870 703 6266 from outside the UK)."

Does this mean you can use 0870 from everywhere outside the UK now? If not is seems a daft thing for them to do. It is specifically for BAA shareholders who will be all over the world and definitely in the States.

Is this a cockup by them? If so a bit odd as they seemed previously to be aware of the problem.