Telecoms industry manager Ofcom is taking a long and hard look at the way it organises the non-geographic 03, 08 and 09 numbers in the UK, after it found that some callers avoid using them due to worries about being charged rip-off rates. Read More >>
Featured comment by strongp:
"Ofcom promised to rationalise these numbers in the last century. 09 for premium, 08 for cheap and free, 07 for mobile, and so on, for the same reason ..." More »
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 >>
Network O2 has decided it's time to start whacking up its monthly contract costs, with the UK mobile provider adding 3.2 per cent to all monthly tariffs from next February. Regardless of what you signed up for. Read More >>
Featured comment by slimjim.dj:
"I get what youre saying and you have a point, but we still signed and agreed the bit which says they can do what the f*ck you want.." 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 »
O2 has launched a new bolt-on mobile package it's calling O2 Travel, which gives its monthly contract and pre-pay customers a cross-European bundle of calls and mobile data for a fixed price of £1.99 a day. Read 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 »
A House of Lords sub-committee has asked Ed Vaizey, the Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, to get tough on roaming mobile data fees, saying current high costs for cross-network data use put travellers off accessing "increasingly important smartphone services while abroad." Read More >>
Featured comment by eadingas:
"Doh!
It's a racket, plain and simple, and I don't get why it takes the EU commission so long to settle this out." 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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