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Fraud buck will stop with network operators
News ICSTIS, the body that regulates premium-rate phone services in the UK, is to bring in tough new guidelines which will make network operators responsible for checking contractors' backgrounds. Scams involving premium-rate services including rogue...
[July 10, 2006, 17:00]
New powers granted to slam rogue diallers
News ICSTIS, the organisation that regulates premium-rate telephone services in the UK, has won new powers that it says will help it to clamp down on rogue diallers. As first reported earlier this week, all premium rate services will now have to seek...
[July 16, 2004, 13:10]
MSN site could charge surfers
News Microsoft confirmed today that it is considering charging users for "premium services" provided through its UK Internet portal MSN, the most visited site in the UK. MSN is at an early stage of looking at charging for premium sevices on MSN UK...
[February 26, 2001, 12:14]
Yahoo! to put price on searches
News plans to unveil a pay-per-view search product Wednesday, the latest in a string of premium services aimed at offsetting a sharp decline in its online advertising. Premium Document Search", the service is designed to expand on a previous agreement...
[January 23, 2002, 9:26]
Symantec launches remote PC tech-support services
News Symantec on Tuesday announced two premium online services that help tweak the performance of PC desktops through remote access by qualified technicians. Think of it like taking your car [for a] service," said Lenny Alugas, vice president of Norton...
[October 15, 2008, 9:16]
Regulator demands more powers to fight rogue diallers
News ICSTIS, the organisation that regulates the premium rate telephone services, is demanding that the government gives it the powers it needs to fight the growing menace of rogue diallers. In recent weeks ICSTIS (the Independent Committee for the...
[July 8, 2004, 17:30]
UK regulator clamps down on porn sites
News The UK's premium rate phone services regulator has fined and barred two online porn providers. Regulator ICSTIS imposed fines of £75,000 on Greenock and £50,000 on Premium Call GmbH, while access to both services was barred for a period of two years.
[October 23, 2002, 10:44]
Government wakes up to rogue-dialler problem
News The proposals, unveiled by e-commerce minister Alun Michael and backed by the premium services regulator ICSTIS, come in response to consumers concerned about unwittingly connecting to expensive Internet diallers.
[June 29, 2005, 16:00]
Pearson denies FT.com to end free access
News The Sunday Times story misses the difference between a pure subscription model, and a mode of free content and premium paid services," a Pearson spokesman insisted. It insisted that it intends to offer a limited number of "premium paid services...
[February 6, 2001, 14:58]
Big fine handed down for mobile spamming
News A company that sent large numbers of unsolicited text messages to mobile phone users telling them they had won a mystery prize worth £500 has been fined £50,000 by the premium rate services regulator.
[August 29, 2002, 14:32]
Telco regulator to give ICSTIS teeth
News They will also be obliged to make more checks on companies offering premium services. An ICTIS spokesman said: "We estimate that we will get 80,000 complaints about premium rate services this year and that is clearly unacceptable.
[December 9, 2004, 12:55]
Hackers gain free access to MSN Premium
News The crack grants free access to MSN Explorer 9 premium services that come bundled with Verizon's DSL (digital subscriber line) service under a co-marketing deal struck in 2002. Verizon DSL and MSN premium services are not currently marketed in China.
[February 27, 2004, 7:55]
Nigeria Telecoms Triple play blues.
Blog A premium triple play package which combines basic, several premium video channels, advanced video features, telephone service, and broadband is offered presently at around $100 in America. In the past few years, “triple play” has probably been the...
[March 17, 2008, 8:27]
Bulldog joins the pack with premium broadband
News Telecoms operator Bulldog Communications is entering the premium content arena by launching a service that gives its users a range of services, including Web security and broadband-specific content. Certainly, virus scanning and spam filtering are...
[August 7, 2003, 17:49]
Carphone Warehouse to resell 3G service
News Buyers of the 7600 will get access to the 3G network of 3 UK, a unit of Hutchison Whampoa, but will not have access to certain of 3's premium services. Nokia 7600 users will have access to 3's network and to some data services, such as news...
[January 15, 2004, 16:30]
ITV Digital falls prey to smartcard piracy
News He confirmed that the company has launched an investigation into the issue, and is aware that certain customers are using pirated smartcards to watch premium services for free. It is thought that pirates are illegally watching subscription channels...
[September 19, 2001, 17:53]
Yahoo! does UK broadband deal
News High-speed access and other premium services are a key part of Yahoo! About 70 percent of that business comes from premium services including personals, email forwarding, email storage and Internet access.
[February 12, 2003, 13:53]
BT to block rogue diallers
News The percentage of Internet-related complaints about premium-rate services has risen from 43 percent in 2002 to 70 percent in 2003, as a proportion of customers making complaints about high telephone bills, according to the industry's regulator...
[June 29, 2004, 13:30]
Yahoo cans streaming video
News The company has refused to break out subscriber or financial details of Yahoo Platinum, although it has highlighted subscriber gains from other "premium" services such as enhanced email and online personals.
[October 31, 2003, 10:50]
Yahoo! launches Web hosting services
News has been trying to diversify its revenue streams since online advertising collapsed and has added fees to existing services and launched new premium services as well. GeoCities will continue to offer a free service with extra premium tiers and will...
[December 9, 2002, 10:47]
