Whopping Fine Day for UK Regulator: £269,500
PhonepayPlus, the UK premium rate regulator, is having a good day today. Or a bad day, depending on your viewpoint.
They’ve issued adjudications for fines totalling £269,500.
The biggest fine this week was 100k to Netsize for a £4.50/week premium SMS chat service operated by Unify Media:
Formal reprimand; bar on the service until the service provider seeks and implements compliance advice from PhonepayPlus and the advice accordingly; to pay all claims made by users for refunds
You can view all the latest adjudications here.
One thing that caught my attention in the update:
Service title: myspace.com/brettlad
Service provider: Mr Ryan Taylor
Content and/or promotion provided by: Mr Ryan Taylor
It’s unusual to see an individual listed. Looks like he was operating a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender support line without, it seems, clearly advising callers of the applicable charges or cutting off callers off after the £30 spending limit. More information here.
where is the RSS feed for this adjudication list!!!! F*@#?!!!!
Posted by James Moverley on March 17th, 2008 at 1:47 pm.hehe.. some ppl really dont get it