realist wrote on Dec 13^th, 2005 at 2:46pm:


I say tar you all of you 0847 hidden money grabbers with exactly the same brush and that should be the tar and feather brush that prominently commences 09 for the first two digits of the number dialled.

Then tell us all the sob stories that you want about how it makes it cheaper for you to run the service blah, blah, blah but make sure people know you are running a Premium Rate number that you are getting a revenue share from (or getting a subsidised call forwarding service in return for) and also allow any domestic landline owner to lock out the making of all such calls by other members of his household by default unless he chooses to enable the facility with a PIN code having to be entered to proceed with the call.  Also make sure there is a call price announcement indicating how much of the call price is going to the call recipient and automatic bans on queues over 15 seconds with the call being automatically disconnected and the call charge refunded if it is not answered in that time.

Then see if you still want to run your Premium Rate number once it is no longer a covert Premium Rate number.

Also how do you justify the vast extra premium charged for dialling 0870 numbers from a mobile or overseas.

You call yourself Realist but I call you Fantasist.