Comments on: The ever-present arse that PhonePayPlus has to deal with

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:15:55 +0000

It's up now.

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:14:57 +0000

Part one of Ant's piece is up: http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/12/uk_...

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:15:55 +0000

It's up now.

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:14:57 +0000

Part one of Ant's piece is up: http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/12/uk_...

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:15:55 +0000

It's up now.

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:14:57 +0000

Part one of Ant's piece is up: http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/12/uk_...

By: Anthony Carroll

Anthony Carroll — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:29:04 +0000

I've sent Ben the first part (I've struggled to narrow down my thoughts on them, so it's in parts!)

In the meantime The Mirror has this to say about mBlox (I've plenty to say about them too): http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2008/1...

By: Anthony Carroll

Anthony Carroll — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:12:32 +0000

My ears are burning, no really! Who'd have thought toasters could be so dangerous?

In all seriousness, I've got lots to say about PhonepayPlus and not much positive I'm afraid. They've promised many crackdowns in the past and yet they've failed to curb such activity.

By: Ewan @ MIR

Ewan @ MIR — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:27:17 +0000

I'd like to read your thoughts Anthony.
Alas I have quite a defeatist attitude to the likes of PhonePayPlus. Run by
the industry. Toothless apart from slapping huge fines (that, of course,
don't actually put the scammers off).

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By: Ewan @ MIR

Ewan @ MIR — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:59:10 +0000

It's all in the wrist! This week's lottery numbers: 12 15 23 33 45 and 42.

By: Paul Cockerton

Paul Cockerton — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:53:35 +0000

You did it again Ewan! Some serious 'dr who' movement going on here or am i missing something? My post – 26 mins ago. Ewan's reply to my post – 1 hour ago.

By: Ewan

Ewan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:38:00 +0000

Aye let’s see it Ben!

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By: Paul Cockerton

Paul Cockerton — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:25:29 +0000

In my view, PhonePayPlus doesn't go far enough. Many of these companies have indemnity insurance so what do they care about fines? The continuing lax regulatory regime still allows activities like these (which I would argue borders on the fraudulent) to proceed.

And as for aggregators – they don't police content providers enough, their eyes are on the revenue share coming in. All of which is a very short sighted view – fraud and fear reduces the attractiveness of premium services to the consumer, which restricts growth, which affects those companies that do treat the consumer well. Sadly, there is all too few of the latter.

@bensmith – where's the article please?

By: jimwild

jimwild — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:48:02 +0000

Its companies doing things like this that continue to make consumers wary of legitmate mobile services. Good work PhonePayPlus, maybe make people think twice about scamming.

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:28:59 +0000

I have an excellent guest article from Ant Carrol on this very subject – he's been doing his consumer champion thing on this.