Unsurprisingly, most Internet providers strongly prefer their customers not to call, or offer advice only via a premium-rate line.

因此毫不奇怪，大多数因特网提供商强烈倾向于其客户不打电话，或者仅通过付费声讯电话提供建议。

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Call Stream British Telecom's premium rate service.

英国电信公司的保险费率服务。

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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.

BBC: BT in Wap phone trouble

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.

BBC: Oftel issues scam warning