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NGMsGhost wrote on Jun 26^th, 2007 at 1:10pm:
I'm glad someone is trying to be optimistic.  I personally try and be optimistic but when it comes to NGN issue I do believe, without a miracle, we're up against a brick wall.  I personally believe ICSTIS is the same as Ofcom and really don't care about our concerns at all but I bet you most of their staff use the site database though to avoid ringing them even though they wont do nothing about them.

hi ! just found this site after reading a letter in the halifax courier. i reckon this will save me about £40 a month on phone bills. also it does help prove that we are sleepwalking into a state/big business dictatorship,whatever your political colours.

thats all too true old pal,it doesn't matter who's in power their all middle class ,all born & bred to keep us all in line. man will never rebel until he becomes conscious but will never become conscious until he rebels.keep up fight.

I knew I would regret it.

I spent 9 A4 typed pages detailing the litany of deception and double dealing by OFTEL, Ofcom and ICSTIS that will now lead to nearly every major commercial 0870 number user changing to 0871 and doubling their profits from the numbers on 1st Feb 2008.

As they will presumably be ignoring its contents entirely I clearly need to send copies to every MP who has been asking Parliamentary Questions regarding 084/7 numbers.

dorf wrote on Jun 29^th, 2007 at 12:15pm:

dorf its good to see you are still reading the forum if not posting often.

Of course we know the worst offenders like Sky (who now have their former Communications Director handily in place as the new Communications Director of Ofcom) will wait until 1st Feb 2008 so it will be too late for a public head of steam to build up against the Ofcom and ICSTIS changes before they are pushed through.

I particularly emphasised that an excuse for using 084 and 087 numbers always cited was that you never had to change number but now nearly everyone has to change number to either 0871 or to 03.  So even that was clearly yet another blatant lie as is almost everything that the 084/7 number venders tell us to justify the activities of their sordid little industry.

A large part of my response was devoted to rehearsing the previous fake consultations by OFTEL and Ofcom where the public's views were consistently ignored and ICSTIS then reneging on Ofcom's clear commitment in NTS: Way Forward that 0871 numbers would be regulated as fully Premium Rate only for ICSTIS to try and wriggle out of this.  I also took apart their claims that there wasn't much consumer detriment in paying £6 per hour and suggested all calls to 0871 not answered in 60 seconds are auto disconnected withe the call auto refunded plus a 25p compensatory fee and with a compulsory voice mail messaging service or key tone entry based ring back facility provided and if the ring back is not provided in 2 hours and the caller reports this to ICSTIS then the company would be fined £100 each time.

I also concentrated on the likelihood these numbers would cost a fortune from mobiles and cost a fortune from or not be accessible from overseas despite airline customer service desks being amongst the most likely users.

I plan to email my response to a larger circulation list of MPs and journalists interested in 0870 but apparently so far blind to the threat of 0871 in due course.

I also pointed out that they had ignored all of my response to the Pre-Consulation and I refused to answer any of the questionnaire as it was clearly only focused on the needs of telecoms companies and call centre operators and written on the basis that 0871 numbers without call queuing restrictions or call price announcements were definitely going ahead anyway.