But not, of course, as good as being honest and using normal, non revenue-sharing numbers.

Ricardo wrote on Aug 25^th, 2007 at 11:49pm:


I'm sure this was part of all OfCoN's original deceitful plan, even though perm haired former Ofcom Competitition Director Sean Williams alleged at my November 2005 meeting at Ofcom that one of the key advantage of NTS numbers is that they were portable and businesses could keep them for life.

Strange how businesses are now quite prepared to give up those so called advantages of number portability for life and all that alleged great difficulty of changing numbers if it means them hanging on to more money.

Not sure  if this belongs here, but here goes, LBC radio are using 0870 9090973 to contact the on air show, for the last couple of days the presenters have been saying the number is changing from Monday, but have not given out the new number, however looking on the website, http://www.lbc.co.uk/Article.asp?id=226022
LBC 97.3FM On-Air, it gives out a different number:- 0845 6060973, so assuming this is their new number they just do not learn! But better than using 0871 or 0844.

Actually, this is not the first time the BBC has used an 0871 number (I've discovered). If you do a search on Google for 0871 site:bbc.co.uk, it returns a whole host of 0871 number results (mainly for tickets, cinemas and air travel - no surprises there). However, one result that comes up is in relation to the Restoration program that was shown a while back. People could pledge money to "The Restoration Fund" by calling an 0871 number - details are at www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/09_september/11/restoration....

Hi,

Had a reply from a Peter Lewis regarding the 0845 number - he was kind enough to provide geographical number for this - so the reply to my email and number is below:


Thank you for your email.

Our 0845 number was setup to give us a National presence, and not to generate revenue for our company. Indeed, we turned down an 0844 number initially because we felt that we wanted the lowest possible rate for our customers.

The 0845 number is mapped to the following number, so you can reach us directly on the following geographic number:

01792 349847

Best wishes
Peter Lewis

jgxenite wrote on Oct 9^th, 2007 at 6:09pm:
I agree here.

Quote:
Some communication providers use this 'national presence' term as a selling point along with the lies about call charges only being local/national rate!

With respect, Mr Ghost (reply #70), there is a "Hall of Fame" section beneath the Hall of Shame. That's why I posted the entry about Country Walking magazine in this thread.

Another one for the Hall of SHAME, the National Railway Museum in York, moved from 0870 to 0844.

Hi,
I would like to make a point on Behalf of Precision Print, whom I work for. We are indeed a Swansea based company, however in recent years we have increased our UK-wide work so that now, 80% of our work is for companies outside of Swansea.

I am disappointed with taffy812`s speculative accusation that "Just another money making scam for this company that probably does 95% of their work in this area."

Simply not true.
Indeed, we do not make a single penny out of telephone calls made to our company. I cannot comment on what our Telephone provider makes, I suspect we are being compared here to 0870 and 0844 telephone numbers, which I think is unfair.

Our telephone number change was for the following reasons.

1. We have moved to a VOIP system for our telephones. Since our old number 01792 414040 was an NTL number, we were advised that we were unable to migrate this number to our new platform because the new service provider does not have a contract with NTL to do so. The current setup of the industry means that large companies such as NTL have a monopoly over smaller companies and can choose not to release numbers to certain companies. This results in an unfair competitive advantage in localised areas.

2. Given the migration problems, we had to consider a new telephone number, and we took the opportunity to gain an 0845 number so that we would not appear to be localised in the Swansea Area. This was purely a business decision which took into account our future expansion plans throughout the UK.

I take the point that we should give prominence to our alternative number, and following the comments we have received, I will be publishing the following alternative number on our website and other places where possible.
01792 349847

Thank you for your comments, and feel free to continue the discussion. We have acted in good faith in this case.
Peter Lewis
Precision Print