﻿{"id":8460,"date":"2012-04-19T17:47:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T16:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8460"},"modified":"2012-04-19T17:47:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T16:47:35","slug":"not-silent-about-silent-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8460","title":{"rendered":"Not silent about silent calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was on the governing bodies of the Internet Watch Foundation and Postwatch, I did lots of media interviews &#8211; both radio and television, both recorded and live. But, in my eight years on the Communications Consumer Panel, I&#8217;ve not done one &#8211; until today.<\/p>\n<p>Normally the Chair of the Panel picks up any media work, but he&#8217;s away today, so I found myself doing a live piece for BBC Radio 2. What was the issue? The \u00a3750,000 fine of HomeServe by the regulator Ofcom for breaching rules on silent and abandoned \u00a0calls. You can read more about the issue <a href=\"http:\/\/consumers.ofcom.org.uk\/2012\/04\/homeserve-fined-750000-for-silent-and-abandoned-calls\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was on the governing bodies of the Internet Watch Foundation and Postwatch, I did lots of media interviews &#8211; both radio and television, both recorded and live. But, in my eight years on the Communications Consumer Panel, I&#8217;ve not done one &#8211; until today. Normally the Chair of the Panel picks up any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8462,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460\/revisions\/8462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}