Phone competitions return to BBC
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Premium rate phone-in competitions will be gradually reintroduced to the BBC in January.
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UK telecom regulator Office of Communications (Ofcom) effectively gave the green light to voice-over-broadband competition today by ruling that service providers could provide geographic numbers (ones with area codes) to VOIP customers (see Ofcom Speaks
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Executives are hoping a new surfing contest format will help bring television viewers.
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Two Five shows discontinued Five has been hit with a Â£300,000 fine by regulator Ofcom in what is the biggest payout by a public service broadcaster to the regulator. It was found to have faked winners in live call-in competitions.â¦
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New rules to protect viewers who take part in phone votes and contests are introduced after a string of scandals.
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A new weekly music television show that will showcase charts for mobile phone ringtones and music downloads is to be aired on ITV1 in a sign of the growing influence of both the mobile phone and the internet on music sales.
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Bookies, casinos and betting websites will be able to advertise on TV and radio for the first time this weekend.
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LONDON : It&#39;s crunch time for Europe&#39;s mobile telephone giants. After spending billions of euros on third-generation licences, they now hope to persuade millions of customers to make the switch to the new
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British telephone users now have a new code prefix - 056 - for VoIP numbers with cyberspace locations. The United Kingdom&#39;s media and telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, has released plans to help the take
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Change comes to ex-NTL customers Virgin Media are to start rounding up fixed-line calls to the nearest minute: something they've been doing for ex-Telewest customers since May, and something BT, Sky and Talk Talk have been doing for a while.â¦
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TEXT message language will be used in a new Government campaign to tackle mobile phone theft.   The Home Office is asking "r u getting the msg?" in a pounds 500,000 campaign to tell youngsters that stolen handsets will be blocked from all networks within 48 hours of being reported lost.
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A review is ordered into premium rate phone lines used by the BBC after errors are revealed.
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Calls to make the BBC's iPlayer work on all types of computer are to get a fresh look by the BBC Trust.
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All this week, Matt Connolly and Darius Pocha will be running their business on the move. They have been challenged to work as normally as possible using only mobile communications.
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'Industry bragging rights' also up for grabs The Forum Nokia Open C Challenge, which offers $20,000 in prizes for the best application developed using Nokia's Open C libraries for Series 60 programming, along with POSIX for the Symbian bits, is now open to registrations.â¦
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THE RASH OF VoIP services being peddled in the UK has meant that the country has to release a new batch of phone numbers. Telco watchdog Ofcom has barked that it would establish the prefix &quot;056,&quot; allowing
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Kids pitch in to improve school ICT A parliamentary group has launched a competition for primary school children to prove their grasp of technology.â¦