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Scratchcard competitions have cost Lancaster-based Abstract Games a £100,000 fine. Winners had to make a £9 call to find out what prize they’d won. This automatically entered them into a subscription service that cost £2 or £2.50 a week. PhonepayPlus, regulator for premiumrate phonelines, got complaints from dozens of people who said they’d [...] PhonepayPlus received 51 complaints regarding unsolicited reverse billed SMS messages from short code 84300. The majority of complainants reported receiving blank messages with no content or receiving no messages at all but a charge of £5 per message to their phone bill. However, some complainants reported the receipt of messages stating [...] Ofcom has today announced that PhonepayPlus will take over day-to-day regulation of 0871 numbers on 1 August 2009, when numbers beginning 087 – with the exception of 0870 – will formally be recognised as Premium Rate Services (PRS), putting them under the remit of PhonepayPlus’ Code of Practice. PhonepayPlus’ implementation plan Ofcom has also [...] |
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