Achievements

We have been successfully representing members' interests since 1995. In this time the industry has developed from a basic value add telecoms environment to a fully interactive media and entertainment rich industry. Our achievements map the developing nature of our organisation and a few of the significant achievements are highlighted below.

2009    Proposal for Merchant Promoter Registration & Central Industry Database agreed by Ofcom. To be implemented under PhonepayPlus 12th Code of Practice

• 2009    Best Practice Code for Mobile Terminating Providers introduced

• 2009    Callcosts.co.uk launched (price transparency website)
  

  2009    Yahoo Media Notifications Group (Tariff transparency & data fill checker)

• 2008    Mobile Marketing – agreement with Information Commissioner Office (ICO) for soft-opt in consistency on mobile

• 2008    Business Case for Higher Rate Premium Tariffs submitted and accepted by Ofcom

• 2008    Best Practice Guidelines for Participation TV services using Mobile shortcode text and voice services introduced

• 2008    Interactive Broadcast Services (IBS) Guide introduced

• 2008    Billing - Payforit Working Group, conducts cross Industry survey, and results feed Payforit V.2

• 2007/8 Successfully lobbied for improved regulatory accountability and direction – see Ofcom Framework

• 2007    Interactive Broadcast Forum established – focused on growing interactive broadcast services

• 2006    Customer Care Charter introduced

• 2005    Co-ordinate the implementation of mobile access control and age verification

• 2005    Core principles of regulation adopted by European regulators