[Philippinen] Hartes Vorgehen gegen Abzocker

[Aka-Aka]

Da könnten sich deutsche Politiker mal eine Scheibe abschneiden. Von den Philippinen? Aber sicher!
The Manila Times Internet Edition | OPINION > Bad telcos

PLDT and Globe spend stupendous sums annually on their so-called Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The truth is that they don’t need to spend a centavo for CSR if they just stopped making milking cows out of their hapless, helpless and harassed subscribers, 90 percent of whom are very poor. Thanks to Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, the two monoliths are probably mending their ways. He began his campaign against the telcos on May 26 after P155 was stolen from his load [=Guthaben] in two days, without him making a call or sending a text.
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Enrile discovered to his horror his was not a unique case. Millions do suffer disappearing loads and they couldn’t do anything about it.[...]

the two largest telcos can steal—yes, it’s stealing, plain and simple.
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The Senate president also complained of unsolicited multimedia messages, the so-called spams, which he says is an invasion of privacy. The subscriber is charged P2.50 per unsolicited message and P15 for unsolicited pictures, ring tones and games, he said.
The telcos blame the so-called content providers. In reality, they are willing partners and active participants in the scam. For every spam message, the telcos grab 70 percent of revenue, the content providers just 30 percent.

Die philippinische Regierung hat vor einigen Tagen verkündet, massiv gegen Spam-SMS vorzugehen:
Office of the President - NTC acts on PGMA directive, bars spam texts by telcos

Under the new guidelines, subscribers (of all telcos) must first request their network providers with a particular service either through correspondence, text, Internet, or similar means of communication.

All contents and information charged with a fee must be delivered only after being requested and public telecommunication entities (PTEs) are required to keep a record of these requests for a period of at least two months or, in case of being a subject of complaint, until the case has been resolved.

It also stated that “violation of any of the provision of this new circular shall be ground for the revocation or cancellation of registration as contents or information provider and/or the imposition of fines in accordance with law.”

Also, Frau Verbraucherschutzministerin Aigner, spannen Sie sich doch mal ein paar bayrische Rindviecher vor Ihren Wagen und fahren Sie in die Botschaft der Philippinen und lassen sich erklären, wie man Verbraucherschutz ernst nimmt...

[via The Scream]

why is it when ever the Telecoms Industry gets into bed with the Premium Rate Industry they end up thieving.

Weil man sie lässt, El Gringo,...

 

[Herculesfahrer]

AW: [Philippinen] Hartes Vorgehen gegen Abzocker

Eine gute Sache, ich hoffe, dass auch in Zukunft in anderen Ländern was gegen diese DInge getan wird wie z. B. gegen 419 Scam

Infos zum Scam gibt es auch bei anti-scam.de