Petition Make premium rate text services need physical signature on terms and charges.

Premium rate text services send you a text message on your mobile and when you reply/text stop, you get charged without knowing charges or terms and conditions of service. Mobile operators charge on their behalf and you can't contact these premium rate text providers.

More details

It's happening all too often and to vulnerable people. Make it must for premium rate text services providers to get physical signature of billpayers on charges , terms and conditions for these services.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

22 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 22 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Show on a map the geographical breakdown of signatures by constituency

10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 5 March 2017
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.