Ring tones sound sour note.

Australasian Business Intelligence,  November, 2006  

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Byline: Rachel Lebihan

Nov 01, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australians have flooded the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman with complaints about text message services and ring tones. In 2005-06 consumers lodged 5,890 complaints about services such as horoscopes, which are billed at a far higher rate than standard messages. This is a 231 per cent increase on the year before and was also the major reason for a 50 per cent increase in mobile billing complaints. In terms of the whole ...

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