Tan Hui Leng
huileng@mediacorp.com.sg
PERHAPS it has happened to you — you receive an SMS asking you to subscribe to a joke-a-day service, and you message back: “Who is this?”. The next thing you know, the subscription charges showed up on your mobile phone bill.  Such dubious practices should go out the window once a code of […]

Posted on November 16th, 2007 by lbraum
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Yesterday the Regulator for Telecommunication in Singapore, IDA, published a new draft for a code of practice. The draft is available here. IDA says about its purpose: The Code only seeks to govern the manner in which the premium rate service is being promoted, provided, and transacted over the telecommunications networks.

Posted on May 11th, 2007 by lbraum
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