IIRC, Ofcom's previous proposal was that the fourth digit of 084/087 numbers should identify the price range.  As 0871 numbers are 10p/minute, does that mean that 0872 numbers will be 20p/minute and 0873 numbers will be 30p/minute?

NGMsGhost wrote on Mar 7^th, 2007 at 6:39pm:
I do totally agree however Ofcom would never go for that.

I suggest as maybe a compromise that Ofcom makes it known that numbers beginning 084x, 087x are premium rate and that in most cases the company/organisation you have rung is possibly making money from you.  This compromise is not unreasonable if you ask me.  No need for companies/organisations to do anything so therefore no cost to them.  It's the truth and more importingly and something I firmly believe in, is that consumers should be made aware of the cost of calling these numbers beforehand and more importingly that the company/organisation being called could be making money.

That way, if a consumer chooses not to do business with a company because it's using one of these numbers then that's fine as it's a choice the consumer has made.

It should also be mentioned that action by Ofcom to stop CPs trying to sell these new number ranges (and existing ones) by misleading their customers and ultimately us end consumers by stating these new and existing numbers are either local/national rate.

idb wrote on Mar 6^th, 2007 at 12:10pm:


If that's what they want, then the most simple way to do it is 08x, where x is the rate per minute.

Instead of that, are they suggesting that a new say 0843 number will be transparent on price, when there is unlikely to be any improvement on the totally fragmented 0.5 to 5 pence 0844 range?