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OFCOM PUBLISHES PROPOSALS FOR ACTION ON INTERNET DIALLERS (20 November - Closes 22 December 2005)

Ofcom has published a summary of proposals and a full consultation document to increase consumer protection against rogue diallers. Existing premium rate services regulation applies to diallers using 09 premium rate or international numbers. Ofcom is proposing to extend these requirements to enable icstis to take action against any rogue dialler irrespective of the telephone number used or the call charges involved.

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THE USE OF 0870/1 AND 0844/5 NUMBERS

(Issued 28 September 2005 - Closes 6 December 2005)

Ofcom has published new proposals to increase consumer protection measures governing the use of 0870/1 and 0844/5 numbers. Some points to note that may be of particular interest are:

1. 0870: an end to revenue sharing. Ofcom proposes that all calls to 0870 numbers should cost the same as calls to national rate geographic numbers. This change would bring the cost of calling 0870 numbers down significantly. This price reduction would effectively end revenue sharing on 0870 when combined with other proposed changes to NTS call regulation.

Communications providers wishing to charge more than the rate for calls to national rate geographic numbers would be required to provide a pre-announcement informing the caller of the cost of the call.

Ofcom proposes that providers should have up to 12 months to implement these changes. In the interim, Ofcom proposes that 0870 call prices should not increase beyond their current levels.

2. 0871: to be re-classified as premium rate. Companies using 0871 numbers would be regulated by icstis and would be subject to the same requirements as companies using 09 numbers.

3. Adult services to be confined to 09 numbers. Ofcom wishes to clarify that all adult services should be provided on the 0908 and 0909 ranges. This means that any adult services currently on the 08 number range will be required to move to the 0908 and 0909 ranges where they will be subject to regulation by icstis.

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