Dear Customer

Please be advised we have received the below notification from Vodafone regarding consumer spend caps on Direct Billing services.

Vodafone is changing the monthly spend limit on Charge to Bill transactions to £50 per subscriber. This will come into effect from today, Friday 21st July 2017.

Vodafone will be sending an SMS to anyone that gets to £40 with a spend reminder that they are near their new monthly limit.

Please note this limit is being applied by Vodafone and the SMS notifications will be triggered by Vodafone.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Kind regards

Fonix Compliance Team
Posted on Jul 21, 14:40 BST

Dear Customer

Please be advised we have received an updated version of the EE code of practice.

Please ensure you circulate to relevant parties within your business.

https://fonix.com/fonix/ee_code_of_practice_v10.2.pdf

We would like to draw your attention to the below points in particular:

8.5. EE does not permit Facebook advertising without prior permission.

10.1. Any Content Service with a charge of a minimum of £5 per week, £20 a month or more than £10 in a single transaction, must be submitted to EE for review and prior-approval, before being marketed and provided to EE End Users.

13.3. In the event an End User contacts an L1 or L2 to complain about a subscription Content Service and evidence exists that the End User has not interacted with the Content in 120 days post subscription, then a refund must be provided in full without question. This applies to Content Services where an interaction is required.

13.4. Subscription Retry policy for Direct Billing
13.4.1. No retries on Post-pay End-Users
13.4.2. Pre-pay users may be retried 3 times on day 1, twice on day 2 then once per day until the end of the billing cycle.

13.6. For SMS Subscription Content Services, the same short code for initiating the service (MO) should be the same as billing the service (MT). This requirement is valid for all new Content Service from August 2017.

17.1. Irrespective of the number of requests made by the End User, a maximum of £30 (including VAT) may be charged to an End User in any single day. An alternative charging mechanism may not be used once the £30 limit has been reached. For example, you are not permitted to start billing via MT SMS when the End User has spent £30 on Direct Billing. Where this limit has been exceeded and EE is exposed to bad debt, the total sum of the bad debt will be retained from any revenue share payments for PRS. The monthly spending limit per End User is 300 Euros per month.

17.2. Independently under PSD2, the spending limits will be 50 Euros per day and 300 Euros a month.

18.1.1. Recycled numbers - End User Telephone Numbers (MSISDN) of End Users relinquishing them (for example if they cancel their contract with EE) may be recycled after a period of 3 months. Therefore, if a subscriber has not been active for a period of 3 months that subscriber must be removed from databases which are used to send messages or billing requests

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions

Kind regards

Fonix Compliance Team
Posted on Jul 21, 15:03 BST

Update - Dear Customer

Please be advised the planned Virgin maintenance has been postponed.

The maintenance will now take place on Tuesday 25th July between 10am and 2pm.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need any further information

Kind regards

Fonix Operations Team
Jul 19, 09:35 BST

Scheduled - Dear Customer

Please be advised we will be undertaking planned maintenance on our SMS Gateway and Direct Billing platform on the above date and time.

The work being undertaken is to implement the second stage integration into the new Virgin platform. There is no anticipated downtime or impact to service during the maintenance window.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Kind regards

Fonix Operations Team
Jul 14, 11:51 BST