I'm ready to stand corrected, however in the main 0870 numbers are very much in decline.

There's still numerous stragglers, but less and less are in use. From experience, I suspect those left are just legacy, they live on, more that it's such a hassle migrating.

0870 numbers are inclusive to many call plans, and revenue-share was killed-off. The reasons 0870 came into being don't truly exist anymore. Many didn't get revenue, (we didn't). Today, there's alternatives. Back in the day, broadly an NGN business number with an IVR back-end, was 0800/ 0870 or you went without.

Businesses were granted 03XX to walk round the issue, what happens to the number group now? Ofcom seem to be pretty silent on this, like 070 personal numbers, will 0870 be left as an oddity to shrivel on the vine? The Telcos won't be seeing the revenue they once did, which means they'll be happier to see change.

Are there proposals to see a blanket 087 /084 etc tariff? Or will they simply cease to exist as Ofcom's move on 0500.

Best I can find is here:

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https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0028/217747/second-consultation-...

Well... I thought I'd answered my own question. It appears Ofcom have kicked this one into the long grass. Now listed in the plan of work for 2023/24.

I suspect, the way the telco industry is moving, if Ofcom leave things much longer, events will overtake the issue anyway. Unless I've missed something, they appear to have watered their words a tad, and no longer give a date for when this will be done:

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Future of numbering policy review.
We will continue our strategic review of the telephone numbering plan to make sure it provides what consumers understand, want and need from numbers for the coming decade.

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So that would mean that this site will start to see increase in popularity/usage?

CJT-80 wrote on Apr 4^th, 2023 at 4:19pm:


Yes the needs of Ofcom's revenue providing base the telcos always seems to have come first in almost all of their actions unfortunately eg they proposed getting rid of 070 personal numbers years and years ago but then caved in and ditched their plans due to threats from those running the numbers about potential revenue loss.........

Anyway just to prove that former active members do occasionally still visit this discussion forum but might have been a year since my last visit.