Sponsored Links

Co-locating your telecoms equipment

If you are considering setting up your own telecoms premium rate company with direct connection with British Telecom – the one thing you will need is a location for your equipment.

You can locate in specific build telecoms buildings – such as Telecom House in Docklands.

Alternatively you can co-locate with an existing telecoms company. This way [...]

Complaints Upheld Against Irish TV Quiz Show

Following 10 complaints against a night-time television quiz programme broadcast on TV3, these have been upheld by the complaints committee of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.

The authority ruled that some of the PlayTV programmes broadcast on dates between July and November last year were unfair and misleading. It upheld some complaints in part.

Members of the [...]

Premium Rate Text Service Raises Funfs For Haiti

Premium rate text messages are helping to raise funds for the victims of the Haiti disater.

More than $8 million (£4.9 million) of the total $35 million raised by Red Cross has been done via text message.

The charity said that it will help to provide kits with kitchen equipment, shelter and personal hygiene packs to help [...]

Announcement About The New Code Of The Live Conversation Fund

As announced on 22 May 2009, the Fund is in the process of being wound up and monies being returned to eligible contributors as at that date.

Phone Call Charges - How much does a phone call really cost?

0800, 0870, 090, 020 – there are so many different phone numbers that keeping tabs on how much they cost to call can be confusing. So what do they all mean?

This is a guide to common phone numbers, some of the ways that they are used and the costs of calling them from a British [...]

Office Of Fair Trading Seeks Court Order Against Premium Rate Prize Draw Promoters

The OFT has issued High Court proceedings against the companies and individuals behind five UK prize draw promotions in an attempt to prevent mailings and the distribution of scratch-cards which, the OFT considers, are misleading.

The proceedings seek an injunction preventing unfair practices by Gloucestershire-based Purely Creative Limited, Strike Lucky Games Limited, McIntyre & Dodd Marketing [...]

Skype Offers Calling to UK Premium Rate Numbers

Skype Offers Calling to UK Premium Rate Numbers

Skype is opening up calling to premium rate PSTN numbers in the UK. Driven by consumer demand, Skype is making premium UK 09 per minute priced numbers available to its 171 million registered users across the world.

Premium-rate numbers are used by a wide variety of [...]

Top Model UK Winner Will Be Decided By Premium Rate Text Voting

The national Grand Final is taking place in March and people can vote by sending an SMS message, which costs £1 plus standard network charges.

Top Model UK is donating the profits from the premium rate SMS vote campaign to the Children with Leukaemia charity.

For more information visit – http://www.topmodeluk.com/

British Men Spend £356million On Phone Sex

British Men Spend £356million On Phone Sex

Research has found that British men spent an amazing £4.2billion last year on adult related services and phone sex comes in at a whopping £356million.

The number one expense was for strippers – with men spending over £1.6 billion to watch ladies undress.

Over a million men admit they regularly [...]

Australian Premium Rate Phone Number Prefix

In Australia, the prefix for premium rate phone services is 190x. 1900 was the initial prefix and is the most common.

However, when this prefix began to run out of available numbers the prefix 1901 and 1902 have also been allocated.

1901 is specifically reserved for services of a sexual nature. Previously (before the introduction of eight digit numbering), [...]