On infected phones, BadNews stole cash by racking up charges from sending premium rate text messages.
It will work alongside the reverse SMS billing and premium rate number charging systems Vodafone already operates.
But two other states whose filings were examined by the committee, Rhode Island and Maryland, signaled premium rate increases.
This allows users to text details (to 76787) of a premium rate number or shortcode they are suspicious about.
The Unite union says Greencore is abolishing premium rate overtime and bank holiday working payments and threatening staff with redundancy.
Health insurers started sending out notices in January informing insurance brokers and agents that the companies will no longer guarantee that premium rate.
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Banks should like it because interest-only mortgages earn a premium rate and they get to lock in low-risk assets at their current depressed values.
One customer demanded that Cellnet should compensate its customers "for the inconvenience and the money they have spent in calling your premium rate line".
Businesses have been encouraged to fax-back information or to respond to text messages by calling premium rate telephone numbers which begin 070 or 09.
In 2012, the average premium rate of residential land was around 8.9% in the second quarter, 15.08% in the third and 22.33% in the fourth.
The tricksters then permanently divert the number to a local rate call and scoop up the difference between the premium rate and the local call.
The Mail on Sunday claimed leaked emails showed that the quiz's premium rate entry line continued to be promoted after a contestant had been selected.
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The GMB said it submitted a pay claim in April, including calls for a premium rate for Sunday working in addition to a "substantial" pay review.
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The premium rate is rising at the same time transaction volume continues to rise, with many new developments already sold out before the foundation even gets installed.
Upon reaching that age, retirees become obligated to pay the going Medicare premium rate, co-pays, etc. in order to stay in the TRICARE military health care program.
Yet, somehow, it was announced this week that the 11.3 million beneficiaries who participate in Medicare Advantage programs will experience a premium rate drop of 1% this year.
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Accessing this site then led to the default setting on the user's computer being changed so that he or she continued to browse the internet at the premium rate.
Half of the 32 apps seeded with BadNews are Russian and the version of AlphaSMS it installed is tuned to use premium rate numbers in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia and Kazakhstan.
The uncharacteristically generous nod to worker needs was short lived as the company partially pulled back on the commitment in 2011, citing premium rate increases that Walmart deemed beyond their capacity to pay.
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The settlement requires QBE to file a premium rate in New York with a permissible loss ratio of 62 percent, reflecting the portion of premiums paid in claims, with annual reporting and rates refiled every three years.
One of the lesser-discussed requirements written into the Affordable Care Act is the section that requires additional regulatory scrutiny on both the state and federal levels when an insurance company seeks a premium rate increase in excess of 10 percent.
This masquerade ended when apps seeded with BadNews got a prompt from one of three command and control servers, then it started pushing out and installing a more malicious programme called AlphaSMS. This steals credit by sending text messages to premium rate numbers.
Others complained to BBC News Online that they spent more than half an hour in a queue for the technical help line of the Genie Wap service - a premium rate call costing 50p a minute when accessed on a normal telephone landline.
In what could be another example that health care reform is actually hitting the targets intended by the controversial Affordable Care Act, government research shows that in the 15 states that publically post their requests for premium rate increases, double digit rate increases have plummeted since passage of Obamacare.
The fake app, once installed on your Android handset, tries to send premium-rate SMS messages behind your back.
Premium-rate services regulator Icstis said its new rules would "go a long way to restoring trust" in TV quizzes.
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Media regulator Ofcom is conducting an inquiry into premium-rate phone lines on TV programmes following allegations that some shows have misled callers.
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Reportedly, Nano buyers will be charged a premium interest rate of 14%.
Once the fake applications were downloaded, the virus sent a text message without the user's knowledge to a premium-rate number he had set up.
In recent weeks the media regulator Ofcom has begun an inquiry into premium-rate phone lines on TV contests following allegations that some shows have misled callers.
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