Dave wrote on Sep 29^th, 2009 at 8:40pm:


From your link :-
On average an 0870 number can earn a company 1.5p a minute.

£150,000
AMOUNT FIRM CAN EARN A YEAR FROM 0870 NUMBER WITH 3,000 CALLERS A DAY EACH HOLDING FOR 10 MINUTES

I thought the revenue sharing stopped on August 1st on 0870 numbers!


"Carphone Warehouse is still using the more expensive 0870 number at 10p a minute from most landlines."

Amazed that CPW are still using 0870, as don't THEY now get charged a ppm for incoming calls?

This clearly deserves a letter to the editor of the Daily Mirror to demand that they run a further article correcting their errors and also suggesting they need to retarget their energies towards asking why some landline providers and most mobile providers and of course BT's Payphones division all still charge a large premium rate to call 0870 even though revenue share has now gone.  The Daily Mirror needs to be told that it should refocus its energies towards the activities of large call centres like those run by DSG Retail and Sky who have changed to using 0844 from 0870 to continue benefiting from revenue share.  Also the question needs to be asked as to when revenue share is going to be abolished on 0845 numbers given that these are still heavily used by the public sector and Ofcom's original justification that getting rid of revenue share on 0845 would damage the dial up internet industry is no longer in any way credible.

However as the recent minutes of Ofcom's NTS Focus Group show Ofcom's only real concern is about whether or not the negative PR it may get for continuing to deliberately featherbed the telecoms industry on 0845 call charges will eventually be bad enough for it to be forced to do something but needless to say that telco centric Ofcom will not do it just because it is the right thing for it do in the public interest.