kwa:k offers new and better Prices for Belgium Premium Rate Numbers

Our payouts for Premium Rate Numbers in Belgium have been changed due to a supplier change. Please update your offering if you use our prices as a basis.
Also we have to announce that in Belgium a major change in Premium Rate Number regulation is to be expected. Most tariffs will change, payouts too. The Premium […]

Singapore: IDA issues code of conduct

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 […]

French Regulator does not like the Plans of Viviane Reading to establish an EU-Regulator

“Viviane Reding’s proposals are totally unhelpful” said Paul Champsaur, Chairman of the AutoritĂ© de rĂ©gulation des communications Ă©lectroniques et des postes (Arcep), to the French newspaper “Les Echos” about an approach to establish an EU Telecom regulator.
Viviane Reding wants to establish a pan-European telecom market authority. Do you agree with this idea? […]

Less complaints against Premium Rate Numbers in Ireland

Over 2,000 complaints against providers of premium rate phone services were lodged with Regtel last year, according to a new report. Regtel’s annual report reveals that overall approximately 30,000 calls were made to its call centre in the year to March, of which 80 percent were related to subscription services. Of the 30,000 calls, a […]

PhonePayPlus reminds of Number Change for Sex Lines

PhonePayPlus the UK regulator former known as ICSTIS issued as a reminder to the industry that, as of 8 November 2007, all “controlled” sexual entertainment services (SES) are required only to operate on the requisite 09 (0909, 0908, 098) number ranges as designated by Ofcom.
This means that any “controlled” SES which may currently be operating […]