Sentence examples for on premium rate from inspiring English sources

Psychics on premium rate psychic telephone services are forced to keep callers on the line for at least 25 minutes to make the company enough money.

Customers will no longer be left hanging on premium rate numbers when they contact HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the tax collection agency has promised.

The regulator fined ITV a record £5.675m last year, for "seriously and repeatedly misleading its audience" on 86 separate occasions over four years, causing viewers to waste £7.8m on premium rate calls.

Ofcom fined ITV a record £5.675m last year, for "seriously and repeatedly misleading its audience" on 86 separate occasions over four years, causing viewers to waste £7.8m on premium rate calls.

It became a truism that more people voted on premium rate lines for reality show contestants than in general elections – although the truism was untrue, because many of these phone votes were made up of multiple calls by the same people.

"Jazzactivist" wrote: "A number of premium rate calls appeared on our bill to the value of £198.

Ofcom is looking into Sky's purchase of a stake in ITV as well as the satellite broadcaster's pay-TV plans for Freeview, and has opened more than 20 investigations into irregularities on premium-rate phone-ins and interactive services.

Because the 2004 ceremony was not aired live - but shown "as live" with a delay - audiences were still voting on premium-rate lines after the phones should have been closed.

Spending on premium-rate overtime by hospitals across the UK has risen by more than a third in the past two years, a freedom of information request has revealed.

He is a member of the youth party and his ambition – to become, as he put it, "the nation's first singing black prime minister" – is unheard of in light entertainment, usually so removed from party politics that voting is something that happens only on premium-rate phonelines.

In May last year it was fined a record £5.7m by Ofcom for "seriously and repeatedly misleading its audience" on 86 separate occasions over four years, causing viewers to waste £7.8m on premium-rate calls to some of its biggest entertainment shows, including Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and Soapstar Superstar.