Regulator clamps down on rogue dialler cash
News ICSTIS, the body that regulates premium-rate phone services in the UK, is clamping down on criminals targeting dial-up Internet users. The regulator announced on Thursday that telecoms companies such as BT will no longer be allowed to pass on call...
[August 5, 2005, 15:25]
How to avoid falling for text message scams
News It is an invitation to use premium phone lines. Warning that criminals are increasingly turning to the Internet and mobile phones to fleece the public, consumer affairs minister Melanie Johnson said that many rip-offs try to con people into calling...
[November 12, 2002, 14:55]
Pay-as-you-surf with Alpha telecom's Internet scratch card
News Alpha Telecom has not yet revealed the premium that it will be placing on Internet call charges in order to make the model sustainable. The economic driver is that the customer will eventually upgrade their package to a contract service, where the...
[July 17, 2001, 7:29]
Orange customer fights £800 roaming bill
News I was prepared to pay a premium and thought it might be four or five times what I pay in the UK — that's a reasonable premium — I didn't expect it to be 100 times the rate. Orange also publishes guides to using your phone abroad, which do not give...
[November 1, 2005, 15:15]
UK regulator clamps down on porn sites
News The promotional material repeatedly referred to sexual acts involving children, while the dialler software used to access the companies' Web sites at premium rate charges of £1.50 per minute downloaded automatically without users' knowledge and...
[October 23, 2002, 10:44]
European Commission: Data roaming is next
News At the time of writing, one megabyte of data usage in France — assuming the user does not subscribe to a premium bundle — will cost a UK-based subscriber £6 with O2, £7.50 with T-Mobile, £8 with Orange and £10 with Vodafone.
[July 19, 2007, 17:06]
Tech giants eye consumer support market
News It's not completely clear how big the market is for premium consumer support, said Matt Healey, an analyst with IDC. Vendors are realising they can make money offering premium services through their own programmes.
[March 1, 2006, 14:55]
Rupert Goodwins: "IT's Like This..."
News In order to protect its positioning of ISDN as a premium-rate business service, it's knobbled the domestic version. As most people's limiting factor on Internet access is the phone bill rather than the ISP charges, Home Highway won't give much of...
[August 26, 1998, 13:39]
Click will launch October 2
News This will be charged for through the users' phone bills, at a premium of a penny a minute on top of ordinary call charges. It is thought that Click is a major part of BT's plans to become the pre-eminent Internet provider in the country, especially...
[September 22, 1998, 15:36]
E-commerce without cards will cost customers more
News This is where consumers may log off -- calls are charged at premium rates, unlike the Internet connection which is billed at a local rate. Initially, the service will be small scale, used mainly for subscription charges for newsletters or...
[November 17, 1998, 13:10]
Reverse the charges
Leader As the unfortunate user said, he expected to pay a premium of perhaps as much as four or five times the normal rate - not a hundred times more. You'll note that no operator pretends that its charges are in any way related to the costs to it of...
[January 10, 2006, 14:00]
O2 extends voice roaming price cuts
News While the 35p per minute incoming/outgoing tariff still exists for those not paying a monthly premium, customers using the new My Europe Extra tariff will now pay £5 per month to get incoming calls free and outgoing calls at 25p per minute.
[February 12, 2007, 8:09]
Orange cuts broadband pricing following flat sales
News Orange announced a major cut in its broadband pricing on Thursday, with its standalone premium "Broadband Unlimited" package falling in price from £27.99 to £19.99. However, Pawsey also noted that Orange had increased its 3G customer base to almost...
[October 26, 2006, 16:30]
Is there a future for BT's unmetered plans?
News If people are reluctant to pay a premium for broadband they won't pay it for narrowband," he says. It helps that we don't have to pay another phone company interconnect charges. BT claims Surftime is going through an approval process but the...
[January 21, 2000, 11:18]
Skype teams up with C&W
News These partners will enhance the level of service globally as we innovate by developing the base free offering and deliver the additional premium enhancements our customers seek," said Niklas Zennström, chief executive of Skype.
[December 22, 2004, 11:55]
Watchdog issues rogue-dialler help
News Premium-rate phone call watchdog ICSTIS has issued a consumer instruction leaflet on how to deal with Internet rogue diallers. The guidelines also detail how to tell the difference between regular and rogue diallers, which dupe users into making...
[October 21, 2004, 17:50]
BT blocks thousands of 'rogue diallers'
News BT has blocked access to 1,000 rogue internet dialler numbers as part of increased efforts to stop people falling victim to premium-rate call scams that lead to surfers unwittingly running up huge telephone bills.
[October 6, 2004, 9:50]
News Burst: Mobile Virgin speaks first words
News Observers predict that while Virgin Mobile will charge customers a high initial premium to purchase handsets, call charges could be as much as 50 percent lower than rivals Vodafone, Cellnet, and One2One.
[November 1, 1999, 9:21]
