United Kingdom · Motion · Early Day Motion
EDM 272
USE OF PREMIUM RATE TELEPHONE SERVICES
Introduced
17 January 2000
Last action
17 January 2000 · Early Day Motion
Status
0
Sponsors
Sir Vince Cable
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
17 January 2000
Summary
That this House notes that companies such as the Allocation Group of Rotterdam using the telecommunications services of Core Communications Ltd (Manchester) are exploiting vulnerable as well as gullible members of the public through unsolicited offers of prizes for which applicants must apply by telephone, requiring long calls at high rates, advertised in very small print; notes that this is one of a number of abuses of premium rate services including many by the sex industry; and calls on the Government to initiatiate action through the Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Services acting in consent with OFTEL and the main telecoms companies, local trading standards officers and the competition authorities to protect consumers from such abuses.
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Timeline
17 January 2000
Early Day Motion
That this House notes that companies such as the Allocation Group of Rotterdam using the telecommunications services of Core Communications Ltd (Manchester) are exploiting vulnerable as well as gullible members of the public through unsolicited offers of prizes for which applicants must apply by telephone, requiring long calls at high rates, advertised in very small print; notes that this is one of a number of abuses of premium rate services including many by the sex industry; and calls on the Government to initiatiate action through the Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Services acting in consent with OFTEL and the main telecoms companies, local trading standards officers and the competition authorities to protect consumers from such abuses.
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- Sir Vince Cable · Liberal Democrat · Primary sponsor
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- Official source: https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motions/18709
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- uk · edm-18709 · source updated 17 January 2000