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Ofcom is to take a more active role in regulating the premium rate telephony services industry.
Effective immediately, existing regulator PhonepayPlus - previously known as ICSTIS - will "act as the agency which carries out the day-to-day regulation of the PRS market on Ofcom’s behalf".
All appointments and re-appointments to the board of PhonepayPlus will be subject to Ofcom approval, and Ofcom will "have the ability to give PhonepayPlus direction on issues which it considers of particular importance or where clarity of responsibility needs to be explicit".
Ofcom cited "increasing areas of overlap" between premium rate services and other parts of its remit - in particular the use of services within television programming - as the reason for the change.
Effective immediately, existing regulator PhonepayPlus - previously known as ICSTIS - will "act as the agency which carries out the day-to-day regulation of the PRS market on Ofcom’s behalf".
All appointments and re-appointments to the board of PhonepayPlus will be subject to Ofcom approval, and Ofcom will "have the ability to give PhonepayPlus direction on issues which it considers of particular importance or where clarity of responsibility needs to be explicit".
Ofcom cited "increasing areas of overlap" between premium rate services and other parts of its remit - in particular the use of services within television programming - as the reason for the change.
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