BenDToy wrote on Nov 10
th, 2006 at 12:30am:
Can I just (politely) make a small point here please? I started this thread in an attempt to gauge opinion for a suggestion to take some specific and tangible, action, rather than the usual "talking shop" that I think this site has become.
However interesting this discussion, it is not what I set out to achieve, and in fact it kind of proves a point I made in a previous thread about the constant repetition of the same points and details about which most of us are already in agreement. Can I ask again, what other contributors think about the idea of sending emails or letters, making simple and clear points about the use of NGNs, and whether someone would be prepared to put together a draft template, which could be edited to suit? Comments please.
Oh believe me we have taken all the proactive steps too of responding to Ofcom consultations, writing to MPs, writing to newspapers and so on and been resoundingly ignored because New Labour and various powerful friends of New Labour who work at the Telcos and at Ofcom do not want the current money making 084/7system to end.
Endless people have complained to the senior management of the call centres of these companies. Comments have been Ignored and obfuscated via numerous cynical means. We respond to Ofcom consultations but Ofcom proceeds with the original Telco centric plans.
Still if you have the magic solution that will bring action and the end of 084/7 numbers tomorrow BenDToy then I suggest you go right ahead and get on with it. Also with regard to this website being more effective in lobbying that unfortunately does not suit the agenda of the site owner Daniel who did not even respond to the last important ICSTIS pre-consultation on 0871 numbers and has never called a public meeting or social meeting of the site's members. Daniel likes simply to have a popular website but he does not actually want the scam to end as that would mean the end of his popular website.
Lastly BenDToy as you are so big on the direct action front then no doubt you will have responded to the last important ICSTIS pre-consultation on the regulation of 0871 numbers? Perhaps you would care to send me a PM to tell me just which of those respondents you were given that you clearly believe in going right to the heart of the matter and that posting here is a waste of time.
See
www.icstis.org.uk/service_providers/responsestoconsultations/0871.aspand
www.icstis.org.uk/pdfs_news/0871.pdfDid I also mention that I had the Council I used to be a member of pass a resolution baning any use of 084/7 numbers? Still all I do is prattle away here and never achieve anything worthwhile at all in your view?