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.

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After two months, "we're seeing a 2% conversion rate" among registered users upgrading to the Premium service, says Glass.

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