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And who is going to criticise Ofcom and Tessa Jowell for having spent years pontificating over what to do about an issue that the public has already long been furious about.

Also who is going to criticise Ofcom for only holding regular meetings to dicuss what its plans are on NTS with the main industry telcos but not with either the main call centre operators or with any major consumer interest groups.

Also who is going to criticise Ofcom for blaming Pito and C&W for its own regulatory bungling or even blatant cynicism.

Or is that a newspaper story for 2006?

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I didn't know she was fat, did anybody else?

juby

The Met website finally has an 020 number listed after the 0870.

But why on earth don't they just remove the 0870 altogether? Or at least put a warning:

To pay up to 50p a minute to find out if your loved ones are dead or injured call: 0870....

Or to pay just the cost of a regular call phone: 020...

Plus they have managed to correct the incorrect formating of the international number.

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Where?

Met site still gives 0870 no priority at this moment  see

  www.met.police.uk/news/terrorist_attacks/

As do London Ambulance,London Govt, Sky etc


Earlier today i heard Tessa Jowell say on TODAY she was looking into it.(Then again pigs might fly!!!)

Isnt it about time we had a statement from the Mobile Companies offering to make a substantial donation to the Disaster fund.

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But I recall arranging a very simple system (using Videotron, when they operated in West London) whereby we could hunt calls over the public network, using Videotron's Nokia switch, so that calls to a single number (081 as it was then), could be hunted over four switchboards - each on a different public exchange with destinations in 081 and 071.
Now if I could do that, having told Videotron what their switch could do, then why not the Met?
Sorry, silly question; but it should not be a silly question.

I have been in contact with a GLA member I know and a  MP I know (not mentioning any names to ensure I don't embarass them if this doesn't go anywhere!).

As previously mentioned the GLA member has questioned the Chief Executive of the Metropolitan
Police, but han't had a response yet. The MP has put down questions on this in the house of commons.

Will let you know outcome.

As mentioned before I'm new to this forum, but I have ben waging my own personal campaign on this for sometime. It was the London Bombing helpline that made me go ballistic and I found this site.

FYI when I started my little campaign in 2002 I received a full refund from BT for all 0870 calls made by me amounting to about £135. The critical factor here was that they stumbled over the following wording when called:

'The rate for a national call'

and

'A national rate call'

To any normal person these would be the same thing and it was so easy to get them to say the wrong one for the wrong circumstances and hence quote the price incorrectly. They just tied themselves in knots without any help from me. This followed 2 genuine calls from me where I was quoted that 0870 numbers cost the same as a non local geographic number, only to find it hadn't when I got my bill.

I suspect it would not be so easy now.

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You must have written a very persuasive letter indeed.

The BT line to me when I have challenged them over 0870 for several years is that this is a special enhanced form of call switching that costs them more to run and so justifies an extra cost.

They never offered any satisfactory explanation whatsoever as to why 0870 was even excluded from Friends & Family.

I have just heard a member of the European Commission on Radio 4 You & Yours making pathetic pleas that if there is a bit more publicity for the cost of European mobile roaming costs on their website then the prices for call roaming will fall.

Get real this is like hoping to embarass bank robbers into returning the proceeds of their heist.  The only way to deal with crooks is to pass new laws against them and build more jails.