Quite some years ago (in facts its now getting on for 14 or 15 years ago) I used to be motivated to engage with Ofcom and respond to their consultation documents when I naively thought they cared about the consumer and would put consumer views first in their considerations.

I soon discovered that Ofcom was in fact a creature of the telecoms industry and that most of their consultation documents like the EU Withdrawal Agreement were already framed behind closed doors with the industry and that regardless of what consumers told them they then always proceeded with the proposals in the original consultation document or if they ever changed them only changed them because the telecoms industry had told them that implementing them would be very expensive and unprofitable for them.

Thus it is very difficult to feel motivated to respond to such a voluminous consulation document when almost certainly Ofcom will proceed with its previously agreed plans with BT Group and BT Openreach plus may be one or two other major telecoms suppliers..............

Ian01 wrote on Aug 20^th, 2019 at 1:41pm:

All of these changes by Ofcom only came many years late (070 is a case in point as the major harms all incurred in the past with eg Patientline) after the telecoms companies losses from the curtailing of these scams would not then be too substantial.

Now that the original telco scams have been cut off on phone calls they have mainly moved on to vastly over charging for landline rental to get your broadband, which it is far harder to circumvent.