THE Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) has launched a crackdown on companies involved in sending people unsolicited premium text messages.

A new code of practice governing the providers of mobile phone services such as ringtones and SMS competitions is due to come into force today.

The Director of Consumer Affairs is set to seek legislation to crack down on postal competitions and promotions that encourage people to ring premium-rate phone-lines.

MOBILE phone company Meteor is to reimburse up to 23,000 customers who were overcharged on their calls over a two-year period.

A number of internet service providers have failed to sign up to a code of practice aimed at safeguarding children, it emerged today.

THE regulator of premium rate phone services has suspended a service operated by a Dublin parcel delivery business following complaints from the public.

NEW TECHNOLOGY to prohibit the spread of offensive and inappropriate material through mobile phones must be implemented as soon as possible, Oireachtas Communications Committee chairman Noel O’Flynn said last night.

PARENTS have criticised a good luck phone text campaign for the Irish rugby team as a “money-making racket”.