Also its surprising about the Reduce the Classified period for Census data from 100 to 70 years one doing so well.  Must be a very organised campaign behind that one.

Now in postion 9 with 12,016 signatures.

Something on the home page of this site today about recent publicity on BBC News 24 and another BBC channel making it much busier than usual.  Has this led to all the extra signatures on the petition?

Hi,

You don't have to pay any monthly fee on top of your line rental to get the 0p/minute rate to 01/02 numbers.  You might want to have a look at http://www.call18185.co.uk ; - I'm using it and there is no monthly charge - they just bill you by direct debit for the calls you make - i.e. just the initial 5p connection charge per call, if you're on a BT line.

Now in Position 8 with 13,628.  Can't be long before someone in the media picks up on its rapid ascendancy.

I only wish the petition had slated Ofcom for failing to prevent 084/7 numbers for still being widely described as local/national rate in material not covered by ASA guidelines and for failing to change 0845 over to being included in inclusive call packages.  They should also be slated for not having forced 0871 and 0844 numbers to move to the 09 prefix or at the very least to a low cost premium rate category with somewhat less strict controls (but still severely limiting call queuing to no more than 3 minutes) on 04 or 06.

Good to see the petition in the top 10 but a shame it doesn't slate the main villain of the piece Ofcom for its sorry and disgraceful failure to take adequate action on the matter on behalf of the UK Citizen Consumer as required of it by Section 3(i) of the Communications Act 2003.

"Now at 13,754.  Another 126 signatures in just the last 4 hours.  Some way to go though to overtake "recognise that music and dance should not be restricted by burdensome licensing conditions" with 15,425 signatures in Position 8. "

Well it's gone past 15 000 today - from 6 000 a week ago.
Should be getting some recognition soon??
Let's keep at it.

Keith wrote on Feb 21^st, 2007 at 1:45pm:


I think the point is that although pretty remarkably less than one in one hundred of the people who bothered to sign the anti road tolls petition bothered to sign any other petition on the 10 Downing Street website (which I do find very hard indeed to believe if all the signatures are genuine and most people signing dirctly visited the Downing Street petitions website) at least those signing the road toll petition were people who hated being ripped off by a  further hidden government stealth tax.  Therefore those 1 in 100 anti road tolls signatories who did bother to look round the other petitions on the site were people particularly likely to object to being ripped off over 084/7 stealth premium rate call charges.

Now that many people visiting the site just want to save the Red Arrows, save the Royal Surrey County Hospital (in both cases meaning spending more money by the government) or have less burdensome regulations for music and dance then not as many of them are going to be those who object to hidden ripoff charges.  Also the total number of people visiting the site and signing any petition is now going to be way, way down.

Clearly getting Radio 4 You & Yours or other consumer radio and tv programs to cover the success of this petition would be likely to add a whole load more signatures to it.

Now we have 144 guests.