You simply DO NOT PAY

Many years ago we had a similar issue with collect calls from overseas that were not being identified as collect calls. "There's nothing we can do, you have to pay and then complain", was the official response. "I'm not paying", was my official response. "We'll disconnect your service and sue you". "Go ahead. I'll sue you back for much more than a few hundred bucks." In the end, I won. They ate the bills and made it stop.

They learn

If you check all the fines from prepayplus on Tamla you will see that most of them are pitifully low.
One would expect that many premium rate providers can either a) Scam the public by 'generating an acceptable number of complaints(generate high profits from not too many of the public')
b) Just scam the public anyway knowing the level of fine will be less than scam profits

Sounds like Orange are in league with these scammers. Think t-mobile and Vodaphone allow you to opt out.

hmm

Can't imagine what sort of content would be even remotely worth signing up for at £1.50 a pop ? Care to enlighten us ? (*cough* - porn - *cough*)

:P