BBC Radio Berkshire are today announcing on air that their phone number is changing from an 0845 number to a 0345 number from next Monday !!!

I cannot find any reference to this on the BBC Radio Berkshire website.   I am wondering if this indicates a general change to 03 numbers for all BBC local radio stations?   

The rates to us are broadly similar for 0345

They have centralised text to a shortcode that costs money and is not included in call plans.

As every telephone number and text is simply redirected to a landline or long text number respectively.

I was thinking that for public service organisations can we make a Freedom of Information request for numbers.

For example a request to the BBC as a whole for a list of radio stations along with their public call in/text numbers aling with the numbers they redirect to.

In addition to the FOI referred to above, a further FOI request received a response in May 2009 - see the results here

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With many campaigners working on this issue and changes happening around this time, the fair telecoms campaign would be delighted to be able to publish details of the current position and assist with completion of the move away from 0845 numbers by focussing on those still using them.

If any supporter of the campaign has the time to work on this, please get in touch.

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BBC Radio Berkshire will be covering the issue of 084 numbers in its news and on the breakfast show on Monday (4 March) morning. This will be focussed on the issue of GPs, but should be extended to cover BBC Berkshire, HMRC, DWP etc. A live interview is scheduled for around 7.00.