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Subject:
Premium Rate Telephone charge - Web Address??
Category: Computers > Internet Asked by: jerrydp-ga List Price: $2.50 |
Posted:
19 Oct 2002 16:05 PDT
Expires: 18 Nov 2002 15:05 PST Question ID: 85272 |
What web site address is accessed from premium Rate telephone number UK (+44) 0909 9675625 |
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Re: Premium Rate Telephone charge - Web Address??
From: aceresearcher-ga on 19 Oct 2002 23:04 PDT |
My UK Reverse Phone Number Lookup source does not give any listing for this number. However, if this phone number appears on your bill, your Long Distance provider will be able to tell you the name the number belongs to; if it's a business, they should be able to give you address and phone number information as well (especially if you have huge charges on your bill associated with this number). Hope this information is of assistance to you! |
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Re: Premium Rate Telephone charge - Web Address??
From: iaint-ga on 20 Oct 2002 01:43 PDT |
According to OFTEL (http://www.oftel.gov.uk) the 0909 prefix is reserved for premium rate lines of a sexual nature: "In order to provide service meaning to callers, premium rate sexual entertainment services, regardless of the charge for the content, product or service, shall only be promoted and accessed using 0909 and no other service meaning shall be given to 0909. Sexual entertainment services are entertainment services of a clearly sexual nature, or any services for which the associated promotional material is of a clearly sexual nature, or indicates directly, or implies, that the service is of a sexual nature." http://www.oftel.gov.uk/publications/numbering/2002/cons0302.htm section A7.8 At first I thought your question "What web site address is accessed" from that number was slightly confused. However a little more research has revealed that a number of adult websites are now using premium-rate telephone numbers to charge for Pay-as-you-View content on the internet so I suspect this is what you are referring to. At the end of the day I think aceresearcher's advice is sound. If calls to this number have appeared on your telephone bill unexpectedly, your first course of action should be to contact your service provider and ask them for the details. If you fail to get any satisfactory reply from them you can take the matter further by contacting OFTEL (website address as above) and asking them to investigate. However the porn industry is one in which a few companies run multiple services, so although you may be able to find out the details of the company who owns that number, I suspect that finding exactly which of their (possibly hundreds of) websites it is associated with could be somewhat harder. Regards iaint-ga |
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Re: Premium Rate Telephone charge - Web Address??
From: owain-ga on 20 Oct 2002 05:27 PDT |
It is likely that a dialler program has been loaded on to your PC which is causing the premium-rate number to be called. You can take action against the web site operators if he can find them and if they are in the EU. You can also complain to OFTEL who can get the premium line suspended and the telco who owns that number will not pay out to the website owner. The problem is that BT will still insist on payment as the number was called. There is heavy regulation by ICSTIS of internet diallers on UK premium numbers. The dialler must warn of the cost of the call per minute before dialling starts and show the incrementing cost on screen the duration of the call. Only the premium operator's own web site must be accessible via the dialler and the maximum call cost is £20 when the dialler should disconnect. Look at page 23 of the ICSTIS code of practice: http://www.icstis.org/icstis2002/pdf/Code.pdf and online service Guideline 11: http://www.icstis.org/icstis2002/pdf/Guideline%2011.pdf Don't delete the diallers, but look carefully at them to see whether they meet all these conditions, and for any references to where they came from and the numbers they are dialling, which should now be obvious from the phone bills. You still need to issue a formal complaint via ICSTIS to find the owner of the premium number. if rules are being broken the numbers will be closed down and owners fined. You can find the telecom operator from: http://www.magsys.co.uk/telecom/codelook.asp (The above extracted from the thread "Redress if duped into PC dialling premium rate numbers?" on the uk.telecom newsgroup, August 2002.) Owain |
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Re: Premium Rate Telephone charge - Web Address??
From: lot-ga on 20 Oct 2002 15:18 PDT |
Hello, The phone number is simply a premium rate internet access number, the physical website or webpage it goes to is controlled via the dialer software (downloaded to a PC). As the number is not a direct connection to a webpage, the configuration of the dialer can change the web page view. The phone number may be shared for different uses to access different areas (depending which dialer you have). The premium number operates in much the same way as your 0845 ISP access number where a group of people can dial in and access the internet. With normal 0845 access you chose where to go, with a dialer, the version of the dialer you are using, controls the URL. The premium number is not used for linking to a website as such, but for generating revenue. The dialer software is the element that controls the URL. The number 0909 9675625 belongs to the telco Norweb (Now known as TXU) traced from Brainstorm's STD code list http://www.brainstorm.co.uk/utils/std-codes.txt Oftel the UK governing body for telecoms categorises the 09 number as "multimedia" though it tends to be used for adult. http://www.oftel.gov.uk/publications/1995_98/numbering/nb30.htm regards lot-ga |
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