My bill of 30 March 2008 says refers to them as "0845 Numbers".

Ah hadn't thought of that. I do have itemised bills because I now get them online. Prior to that I didn't and got the summary bill and the issue wasn't there, so this might not be new.

Still very very wrong as NGMG points out.

Will do NGMG and yes as you can see from my last post I do have online billing.

Keith wrote on May 10^th, 2008 at 4:20pm:


What part exactly of "useless" "patsies" "telecoms industry" and "in the pockets of" do these cretins at Ofcom not get.

I suppose it is also just a mistake is it that Post Office Homephone Yourcalls/Communications Warehouse and most of the other main WLR line rental and call package suppliers are also still calling 0845 and 0870 "Local" and "National Rate" and also still charge 03 numbers at g6 multimedia rate in violation of one of Ofcom's new General Conditions. Why does not Ofcom understand that £20 million fines elicit immediate action but friendly letters and chats behind closed doors at the NTS Focus Group = No Action and repeated lieing and scamming by the telecoms industry.

No doubt the grossly overpaid and wholly uninspiring Ed Richards and David Currie are even now secretly laughing behind their backs at the general public and Ofcom successfully being able to repeatedly hoodwink the press that they are on the side of the public with their deliberately grossly misleading and untruthful press releases hiding the fact that they are going back on their word about making 0870 numbers geographic rate across the board or that they would be subjecting 0871 numbers to full premium rate controls.

When Ofcom's most senior executives can openly joke amongst each other in a public place about Members of Parliament on the two Select Committees who were supposed to hold them to account being "toothless tigers" its pretty obvious just what these two faced charlatans actually think about allowing their chums in the telecoms industry to go on deliberately ripping off the public while continuing to profess to the world at large their serious concern about the matter.

This useles and meaningless letter from a useless Ofcom adviser is typical of the garbage they turn out in response to any serious policy level complaint against the telecoms industry.  Also note that serious policy level complaints to Ofcom by the public never seem to reach their senior executives' desks.

When is Ofcom going to stop meeting with the NTS section of the telecoms industry in smoke filled rooms with no public interest representation while it then strikes secret deals with them (eg ditching previous commitments on 0870 on the flimsiest and most hollow of pretexts about burglar alarm issues) and instead fulfil its principle remit of ensuring properly competitive telecoms markets and properly transparent pricing for UK citizen consumers.