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	<title>Premium Rates Blog</title>
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	<description>All about Premium Rate Numbers and the Premium Rate Numbers Industry</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>New Regulation in Belgium creates Chaos in most Carrier Offices</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.premium-rates.com/archives/60</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago we informed about a change in regulation of Belgian premium rate numbers. On 1st of April, 2008 most of the rules of the royal decree of April 2007 entered into force.
Some prefixes (077, 0903) are discontinued
New prefixes are introduced (0904, 0906, 0907)
The already existing limit of  maximum call duration was changed from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>kwak now offers Irish Premium Rate Numbers again</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.premium-rates.com/archives/59</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since today we are offering the whole range of Premium Rate Numbers from Ireland again. With low routing cost and a good payout we expect  a profitable business for our customers. All information can be seen at http://www.premium-rates.com/premium-rate-ireland.htm .
Irish numbers are available with minute-based (per-minute)  and mit event-based (per-call) tariff. Data or dialer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Watchdog Ofcom reveals tough Premium Rate Rules for TV Broadcasters</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.premium-rates.com/archives/58</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strengthening consumer protection in participation television &#124; Ofcom
Ofcom announced today measures to strengthen viewer and consumer protection in participation TV programmes through new mandatory licence conditions for television broadcasters.
Participation TV is programming which invites viewers to interact, often by using premium rate telephone services (PRS), such as television voting lines and competitions.
Separately, PhonepayPlus, the agency [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Call-In TV in Italy</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.premium-rates.com/archives/57</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Italy, TV Call-In shows are licensed. That is not part of the regulation, but of the law itself. Articulo 88 de Regio Decreto No. 773, Testo Unico delle Leggi di Pubblica Sicurezza, dated June 18, 1931, says that the right to operate lotteries, gambling or prognostic games is allowed only to the state or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: New rules for restricting access to age restricted content</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.premium-rates.com/archives/55</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ New rules for restricting access to age restricted content (commercial MA15+ content and R18+ content) either hosted in Australia or provided from Australia will commence from 20 January 2008.
The new rules made by ACMA on 20 December 2007 are specified in the Restricted Access System Declaration 2007 (PDF 38 kb, Word 127 kb), and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ofcom takes over PhonepayPlus</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.premium-rates.com/archives/54</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Broadcasting - News - Ofcom to direct PhonepayPlus - Digital Spy
Ofcom is to take a more active role in regulating the premium rate telephony services industry.
Effective immediately, existing regulator PhonepayPlus - previously known as ICSTIS - will &#8220;act as the agency which carries out the day-to-day regulation of the PRS market on Ofcom’s behalf&#8221;.
All appointments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>kwa:k offers new and better Prices for Belgium Premium Rate Numbers</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.premium-rates.com/archives/53</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singapore: IDA issues code of conduct</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.premium-rates.com/archives/52</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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: &#8220;Who is this?&#8221;. 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French Regulator does not like the Plans of Viviane Reading to establish an EU-Regulator</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.premium-rates.com/archives/51</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Viviane Reding’s proposals are totally unhelpful&#8221; said Paul Champsaur, Chairman of the Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques et des postes (Arcep), to the French newspaper &#8220;Les Echos&#8221; 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? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Less complaints against Premium Rate Numbers in Ireland</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.premium-rates.com/archives/50</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over 2,000 complaints against providers of premium rate phone services were lodged with Regtel last year, according to a new report. Regtel&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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