Watchdog warns on premium rate text services

THE watchdog body in charge of policing Ireland’s premium rate telecommunications service says that people fail to read the small print and often don’t realise how much the information costs or how to stop subscription to the service.

Large numbers of self-confessed sports fans are signed up to mobile phone subscription schemes that send them regular updates on their favourite teams’ results.

Many more mobile phone users receive regular traffic, weather and news alerts to their handset via text message.