0 A premium-rate phone number or service costs more to call than a normal phone number: --
1 a higher rate that a phone company charges customers for special phone numbers: --
The code, which draws on existing good industry practice, covers both the advertising and editorial content of newspapers and magazines as well as the promotion of premium-rate telephone services.
It also deals with a number of other matters relating to electronic communications, such as the persistent misuse of electronic communications networks and services, and the regulation of premium-rate services.
One method of dealing with the problem would be to outlaw demands for money up front and for premium-rate telephone calls.
They are having to shell out for materials, directories, registration costs, fees, deposits and—always—premium-rate telephone calls, in advance.
By and large, unregulated premium-rate services have caused all sorts of social problems which we cannot continue to ignore.
I want the same thing to happen with premium-rate services.
I make no apology for returning to the subject of telephone premium-rate services.
How can we sort out the problem of premium-rate services?
