Roy Perkins said,
> The only input I can offer is in reply to question 2. I read in one of my
> local papers recently about a guy who went to some kind of medical site while
> surfing with NTL and the site put a charge onto his phone bill. I don't know
> the name of the sight though, like this poor bloke (who had run up quite a
> bill) I thought there weren't any sites that did this. Maybe one of our
> resident web wizards can enlighten us all on this?
A phone bill is exactly that, a bill for phone charges. There's no way a
web site can put something on your phone bill any more than they can
add a charge to your gas bill.
There is one way for a site to affect your bill. I received some
information recently about a program that can be used to drop the
connection and redial using a premium rate number for a download. The
idea is to provide a means for people to buy software or services
without giving credit card details over the net (or even having a card).
It struck me as a pretty horrible idea, since any other transfers you
have running at the time you click the "download me now" button would be
aborted.
It only works on Windies and I didn't have access to a Windies machine
to try out the demo they sent me. But I didn't like the idea anyway. BT
still get 50% of the cost of a premium rate call, so they make as much
out of the sales as the people actually making the product.
Neil
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