comwreck publishes 2 consumer guides

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Press Release for ComWreck

10 June 2004

ComWreck publishes two consumer guides:

Porn Diallers
Our Communications Regulator has promised to do something about the appalling situation of ordinary telephone/Internet users getting double-screwed by Eircom, when their modems get hijacked by Internet crooks. All dial-up Internet users are at risk of receiving immense freak telephone bills.
ComReg has published a rather useless consumer guide on the issue of stealth-diallers/porn-diallers – here is one that works:
"ComWreck Consumer Guide: Ultimate Modem Hijacking Protection"
direct link to the guide: http://www.comwreck.com/blog_21_june9.html

TD Guide
To help our 166 TDs save on their constituency telephone allowance, paid for by the taxpayer up to a sum of yearly €6348 per TD, we've published a guide, which is useful for ordinary consumers, too:
"ComWreck TD Guide"
direct link to the guide: http://www.comwreck.com/blog_22_june10.html


Commission for Communications Wreckulation
www.comwreck.com



By the way:

1.
ComReg has finally positively responded to our campaign on Directory Inquiry Service regulation and proposed to change the requirements for DQ Service providers: In future Irish DQ users will get the same consumer protection as the rest of Europe: they will have to be told about the price of "call connection" at the moment of being offered the service.
ComReg has a consultation document about this on their web site. Feel free to respond. Link to the page on comreg.ie is : http://www.comreg.ie/publications/default.asp?nid=101650&ctype=5

2.
Our campaign to highlight the scam-nature of Eircom's "broadband trigger programme" was taken up by the national media. Eircom hid behind the excuse of being in a "closed period" (stock exchange rules) and offered no explanation about the figure trickery of their trigger programme. This closed period is now over.

P.

viking

Eircom hid behind the excuse of being in a "closed period" (stock exchange rules) and offered no explanation about the figure trickery of their trigger programme. This closed period is now over.

Have you been in touch with them since & got any response on this?

Great work again Peter,

V

spongebob

Nice of Buttsy to blame 15nn numbers for the porn dialler outbreak. (see the interview transcript)

1. These numbers are regulated by Regtel and not Comreg themselves.
2. No porn dialler has ever dialled a 1550 number because Regtel would shut the scam down before they collected the cash.
3. Regtel cap call lengths at 25 mins or €53 at the highest rate , 1590 numbers. where Comreg would allow a call to go on for days at €5000 per day ....and would refuse to intervene on the victims behalf too. Buttsy was honest about that last bit though.

How very sneaky of Buttsy to try to shift the blame for Comreg inaction and ineptitude though . The honest to God Comreg position is that your computer can dial anywhere it wants and that Comreg will make sure that Eircom gets to collect all the money for it.....even if you are on the vulnerable user scheme......and that you are entitled to spend €5000 a day on a 0k connection too while you are at it.

Doonesbury has a topical strip today about people like him .....who have no Shame .

M