The EU has tabled a few draft proposals designed to force banks to be clearer on their charges and make comparing fees easier, which could bring about the long-heralded end of mostly "free" banking in the UK. Read More >>
One of the great modern injustices about using your mobile will soon come to an end, thanks to regulator Ofcom formally decreeing that it wants to unify freephone numbers and make 0800 lines free to call from our mobiles. Read More >>
Featured comment by dunksterp:
"I consistently get really good speeds, I can download at over 600kbs. The reason I use so much data is I don't have broadband at home (no space in the..." More »
Facebook is pushing ahead with the launch of a crazy new paid messaging service in the UK, which sees users charged up to £10 a time to send unsolicited messages to celebrities and other people not already on their friends list. Read More >>
A supposedly "faulty" iPhone landed a man in severe financial trouble, after the phone racked up an astonishing £19k data bill -- and network Orange tried to take the money from the bloke's account. Read More >>
Featured comment by jibberjabba:
"www.moneyclaim.gov.uk
I've not used it myself, just heard about it. Do let us know how you get on if you choose to proceed with this route." More »
While some people are perfectly happy to pay £400 to watch a handful pensioners playing songs from the 1960s, there's one ticketing scam that still seems particularly mean -- charging us "delivery fees" even when we're printing out emailed digital copies of tickets. Read More >>
Featured comment by nerdfly:
""surely they need the same amount of people to read and validate the tickets they print? The number of people with tickets hasn’t changed"
^^ Act..." More »
After receiving loads of complaints following a series of mid-contract price rise outrages, regulator Ofcom is said to be looking at the practise of networks including "price variation clauses" in their contracts which let them take more money off us whenever they like. Read More >>
Featured comment by spank86:
"I think I should be allowed to do it too, In fact I'm going to ring vodafone now and tell them that from christmas I'm only going to be paying them £..." More »
T-Mobile has joined O2, Vodafone and Three in offering a capped mobile data plan for travellers, so its users don't end up with a £150 phone bill for daring to send a horrified Tweet from the streets of Magaluf. Read More >>
Featured comment by raven:
"It was cheaper to get their (vodafones) £10 a month deal for 25mb per day and then cancel it when you get back, ive done this for the past 2 years ho..." More »
Those fake apps that pop up really do work for their makers, it seems, with one enterprising Latvian scammer raking in around £28,000 thanks to releasing fake versions of Angry Birds, Assassin's Creed and Cut the Rope on Google's Play Store. Read More >>
Featured comment by Darrell Jones:
"That wouldn't be that hard to do, kind of like the superuser app (for those of you with rooted phones). Since allowing root access can be dangerous (g..." More »
The UK's regulator of communications wants to simplify the minefield that is mobile phone calling fees, amending the rules so that calls to 0800 numbers are free from mobile phones as well as land lines. Read More >>
Featured comment by Ballboy:
"Welcome news, but don't hold your breath. Ocfcom are going to make a decision on it in 2013! It will then take the mobile operators' a year or two to ..." More »
Going to the cinema these days is expensive enough, but it doesn’t half cheese you off when you get a massive extra fee of up to £4.20, just for booking online with your bloody card. Thankfully it seems someone’s finally wised-up to the fact that we’re just not having it any more, as Cineworld’s dropped all card charges. Read More >>
Featured comment by LeftofNever:
"I wish other cinema chains (Vue & Odeon) would offer such a thing as there is no Cineworld near me. I'd go to the cinema at least once a week if t..." More »
If you want to know the time, don't bother asking a policeman any more. Figures released by London's Met Police show that officers built up £35,000 in phone bills simply from calling the speaking clock service to find out if it's dinner time yet. Read More >>
A group of MPs are trying to do victims of stolen phones a favour, by forcing the networks to reduce the amounts they charge for calls made on stolen phones. Read More >>
Featured comment by darkly:
"It won't last, they're bound to go back to ripping us off soon. There's too many new gadgets for them to claim expenses for." More »
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