that's a curious response considering the government (via Ofcom) has routinely acted on this sort of thing before, such as forcing all 0800 numbers to be free from mobiles, even if you don't have any credit (and before this, they leaned on the industry to make certain numbers like childline or the samaritans FOC). Or the creation of the "03xx" code which *must* be charged at the same rate as calling a landline, or included in minutes where applicable.Alas there was a petition, but it was rejected:
Petition: Make all network providers allow free texts to 61016 British Transport Police.
Make all network providers allow free texts to 61016 British Transport Police. Because some networks treat this as a premium chargeable message.petition.parliament.uk
it's not clear that the BTP charge anything themselves, the question is why the network operators are treating it differently, and that is very much a government thing.
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