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A briefing has been issued and a recording of the relevant sections of the broadcast is available
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the fair telecoms campaign will feature in a piece on 5 live Investigates on BBC Radio 5 live tomorrow morning at 11am.
The topic will be the use of 084 non-geographic numbers by NHS GPs. Listen on AM, DAB, online, Freeview 705, Freesat 705, Sky 0105, Virgin Media 905. We will also be making the broadcast available online to listen again via our Radio player.
We welcome all options offered to consumers to protect themselves against nuisance. We must not however see these as being the answer for those who are practising illegal activities.
This news release provides advance notice of the Ofcom announcement which is expected shortly. This will give the details and the implementation timetable for the "unbundled tariff".
The Ofcom "action plan" to deal with Silent Calls fails to address its unacceptable policy - which tolerates them!
This item was prepared following the report of the National Audit Office - see our blogging. It follows previous coverage of the issue by Money Box - see this item. The following quotations from Lin Homer indicate that the battle is nearly won. “[Some] of our callers already have access to a 0345 number, so we are well on the way to trying to make the system work better” This is an acknowledgement that 03 numbers are required and that the roll out will continue. “We are going to renegotiate the contract next year … to get the best value for the callers, as well as for HMRC, when we do that” Any Treasury minister who approves the continuing imposition of a Service Charge will have to answer to parliament and the people. The loss of the benefit of the subsidy indirectly achieved from the Service Charge must be approved - “we are all in this together”.
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