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We'll end Eircom's dirty business - but no inspectors, please!

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  • 07-08-2004 1:47pm
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    eircomtribunal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭


    Press Release for ComWreck

    7 August 2004

    Nearly two years after Eircom started to prey on the victims of porn-diallers by setting up their 360 cent/minute extortion Band 13, concentrating most of the number regions that harbour Internet fraud, our Regulator proposes a solution.

    Thousands of Irish dial-up Internet users have lost millions in this fraud, with most of the money going to Eircom.

    While Comreg's proposed solution will eventually stop the scam, we ask for the murky background of this crime to get investigated.

    Read more on www.comwreck.com. Direct link to "our" "John Doherty" blog,
    "We'll end Eircom's dirty business - but no inspectors, please!"
    is : http://www.comwreck.com/blog_23_Aug7.html

    There you'll also find our formal response to ComReg's consultation "Protecting Phone Users from Internet Dialler Scam" – and be assured it's not a boring read, we even gave it an illustrated cover page.


    Comwreck
    Commission for Communications Wreckulation
    www.comwreck.com

    PS.: Why not respond yourself to ComReg's consultation, and make a stance for consumer protection? It can easily be done by email. Deadline is the 20th of August 2004. Just download ComReg's pdf, http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/Comreg0481.pdf. The questions are at the back of this short document.

    P.


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    spongebob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,143 ✭✭✭spongebob


    As I am 9 days into my self declared "Be Nice To Comreg Fortnight" I cannot really say any more on the issue until next thursday or so .

    Everyone should reply to this consultation as per the links in the article above , even if only to remind Comreg of their innumerable past failings. The proposed regulation is EXACTLY what I told them to do in OCTOBER 2002 as in EXACTLY . Therefore I cannot complain about it :D

    I note that Vanuatu and Tuvalu have not been listed, must tell them to clean that up but its a minor detail.

    Next up, FUNCTIONAL INTERNET ACCESS .

    M


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    eircomtribunal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭eircomtribunal


    Nice little note about our dialler consultation response in the Sunday Business Post today:
    "....Ever the cynic about such matters, ComReg's satirical alter-ego website, Comwreck, issued what it sees as the appropriate response. Its poster displays an obviously distressed Tippi Hedren lookalike with the banner: 'The Irish internet user – fed to the birds by ComReg'"

    P.
    to_the_birds.jpg


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    Mr_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Mr_Man


    BBC's Working Lunch program has been focusing on the issue of diallers over the past couple of days, and in to-day's program they dragged the regulator into to give him a girlling on what was being done to combat the diallers. It makes an interesting contrast with the lack of action this side of the Irish Sea.

    Interview:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/audio/40044000/rm/_40044872_icstis.ram

    Background Info

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/working_lunch/3630498.stm

    and

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/working_lunch/3634082.stm

    M.


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