Submitted on Monday 23rd January 2012
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
To Decrease the Cost of National Rate Numbers Especially in Relation to Businesses
To stop businesses using premium phone lines (so called national rate numbers such as 0845/0870/0844), for customer services, where the number of staff employed is likely to mean waiting times of more than 3 minutes and in instances where this is not the case, to have them replace national rate numbers with local rate numbers. Alternatively, for the Government to impose a pricing tariff onto mobile network providers that means that these numbers, along with 0800, are charged at a lower rate of 2p per minute, if not entirely free.
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