Mar 6, 2009 11:00 AM
UK premium calls and text regulator PhonepayPlus has fined British ringtone provider Mexel Limited a total of £75,000 ($106,000) after it was found that the content company in two separate cases using different ringtone services had sent unsolicited chargeable messages—costing up to £5 ($8)—and had failed to stop sending them…
Posted In: E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Entertainment, Legal, Regulatory, Technologies / Formats, Countries, Europe, UK, mexel limited, phonepayplus
Jan 22, 2009 4:04 PM
UK premium content regulator PhonepayPlus has released new rules for the mobile content industry following a 108 percent increase in mobile-related complaints from 2006/07 to 2007/08. The most significant point is that anyone signing up to a subscription service which charges more than £4.50 ($6.25) in any given week (including…
Posted In: Entertainment, Legal, Regulatory, Countries, Europe, UK, phonepayplus
Oct 17, 2008 1:49 PM
PhonepayPlus, a U.K.-based regulatory organization, announced that George Kidd will resign as CEO at the end of the month. Paul Whiteing, the current director of policy and innovation, will replace him on an interim basis. PhonepayPlus regulates the goods and services that get charged directly to phone bills and pre-pay…
Posted In: Legal, Regulatory, Countries, Europe, UK, george kidd, paul whiteing, phonepayplus
Sep 19, 2008 12:05 PM
Zed CEO Javier Perez Dolset has lashed out at the UK’s premium rate phone regulator PhonepayPlus, blaming the watchdog for “destroying” the UK D2C content market. Dolset told Mobile Entertainment that the regulator’s refusal to step in and deal with the subscription abuses taking place three years ago has killed…
Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Countries, Europe, UK, javier perez dolset, phonepayplus, zed
May 1, 2008 5:00 PM
UK regulator PhonepayPlus has announced a review into the 350 million pound (US$691.6 million) a year premium-rate industry, after complaints soared by 40 percent in the first quarter of 2007. In the first quarter the regulator “had received more than 4,500 complaints about mobile content. This was 80 percent of…
Posted In: Legal, Regulatory, Countries, Europe, UK, phonepayplus
Mar 27, 2008 6:49 AM
The UK’s premium-rate phone regulator Phonepayplus has launched an investigation into the controversial online fashion site Miss Bimbo, which allows its typical audience of girls aged 9-16 to buy diet pills and plastic surgery for their virtual characters. The Guardian reports that the regulator is looking into the site in…
Posted In: Technologies / Formats, Companies, Countries, Europe, UK, miss bimbo, phonepayplus
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