PRS (Premium Rate Services)
What are Premium Rate Services?
Premium Rate Services (PRS) are goods and services that you can buy by charging the cost to your phone bill. You can charge these costs whether you have a landline or a mobile phone, and whether you pre-pay your phone bill by buying credit or pay a regular, monthly bill.
Premium Rate Services typically offer information and entertainment services, which can be accessed through landline phones, mobile phones, fax, interactive digital TV, the Internet or an auto-dialler on a computer.
Premium Rate Services are promoted in newspapers and magazines and on television, radio and the Internet.
Examples include:
• Ringtones and wallpapers
• Games
• TV voting (for example, The X Factor)
• Horoscopes
• Psychics or other entertainment services
• Sports alerts (for example, goal alerts)
• Competitions
• Weather forecasts
• Chat lines
• Business information
Downloadable versions :
In January 2011, ComReg launched www.phonesmart.ie a consumer website which provides extensive advice on premium rate services (PRS) and their use. For further information, please visit http://www.phonesmart.ie
