End Of The Line For 0845 Calls?

[Arthur Little]

According to an article I read in Tuesday's Daily Mirror ... rip~off premium phone numbers - currently in use for accessing various Government public services - are to be banned.

Apparently, Whitehall bosses were shamed into taking remedial action after MPs revealed Departments such as Work & Pensions raked in £56 million last year from hard-up callers.

Alternatives to the numbers are eventually to be set up following a Public Accounts Committee disclosure that 'Cable & Wireless' were making £1 million out of a deal with HM Revenue & Customs.

[grahamw48]

Let's hope so. They're a right rip-off.

[Dedworth]

I always use www.saynoto0870.com

had a right go at the GP's the other day wife was holding on for 10 mins at 3p a min listening to their music on an 0844 number. They sheepishly said they were reverting back to a geographic number next month

[Dedworth]

Which petition here

http://www.which.co.uk/campaigns/pre...tlycallslaunch