Agree with paid SMS service only applies if user texts ‘pay’

Users of SMS services will now have to ‘pay’ SMS before being tied to a paid service. So far ‘ok’ is sufficient. The change is part of a stricter code of conduct for SMS providers.

In addition to the obligation to text ‘pay’, consumers with the new code of conduct will receive a message informing them that it is a paid service, what the costs are and how they can get rid of it. In addition, the Enforcement Desk of the foundation that draws up the code of conduct can from now on fine providers if they go over the line.

The updated code of conduct follows the older, less strict code. This meant, among other things, that people have to text ‘ok’ before they are tied to a payment service by text. The new code is necessary because at the beginning of this year there was an increase in the number of victims of rogue SMS services.

In addition to the SMS providers themselves, the foundation that makes the code of conduct, the Foundation for the Code of Conduct for Mobile Services, contains the payment services that make the subscriptions technically possible and the providers that collect the money from their customers via the telephone bill.