Storm over British television premium rate phone lines
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Programmes screened by a string of British channels were under a cloud Friday amid claims that they breached guidelines on premium rate phone lines to television shows.
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Broadband access charges are still too high and need to be slashed further to bring them in line with other nations, the UK&#39;s media and telecoms regulator says.
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Consumer casualties on broadband battleground The volatile ISP sector is continuing to annoy UK consumers as it sacrifices service for lower prices.â¦
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Probably PhonepayPlus, the daftly-named regulator formerly known as Icstis, has set itself the tall task of rebuilding trust in the premium rate industry. A new text service for consumers will check whether a top rate line is dodgy or not.â¦
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By James Daley  The satellite TV group BSkyB ramped up the stakes in its battle with the newly launched Virgin Media yesterday, taking out television adverts to warn cable customers that they could lose access to many of Sky's channels due to Virgin's reluctance to pay enough for them.
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Ofcom finds 'widespread and systematic deception' in premium-rate call competitions.
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Arts & entertainment: BBC and Ofcom receive almost 150 complaints about bad language in Saturday's Live Earth coverage.
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UK broadcaster ITV is to suspend all  premium-rate phone-in competitions pending a review.
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ICSTIS investigates The company behind Channel 4's daytime telly show Richard and Judy is being quizzed by regulators over the way competitors for the show's "You Say, We Pay" quiz are selected from a premium-rate phone line.â¦
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Rip-off alert will give you a chance to hang up Telecoms regulator Ofcom has ordered that from September, callers to so-called "personal numbers", which start with the digits 070, must hear a warning on the call's cost for free before being connected if the call will cost more than 20 pence.â¦
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Britain's media regulator said on  Tuesday it has concerns about competition in the pay-TV  industry and whether firms such as BSkyB have the incentive to  make premium content such as sports available to other  operators.
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Broadband mass migration to Telefonica UK
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British pay-TV giant BSkyB on Wednesday posted a net loss in the first half of its financial year as the group booked a hefty charge on the dwindling value of its 17.9-percent stake in broadcaster ITV.
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Federal regulators Friday imposed a six-month freeze on the rates regional phone companies may charge their competitors to use networks to provide local service.
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HBOS said Thursday that economic turmoil connected to the global credit crunch has cost the group 180 million pounds.
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Making a call from a BT pay phone will cost a minimum of 40p from November, the telecoms giant says.
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Hundreds of thousands of British cable television subscribers were deprived of popular US television shows on Thursday amid a row over how much Virgin Media must pay rival BSkyB to screen the hits.