Phone-paid Services Authority

Phone-paid Services Authority
AbbreviationPSA
Formation2016
Defunct2025
Legal statusnon-profit making company limited by guarantee
PurposeUK regulator for content, goods and services charged to a phone bill
Location
  • 25th Floor, 40 Bank Street, London
Region served
UK
Chairman
David Edmonds CBE
AffiliationsOfcom
Websitepsauthority.org.uk
Formerly called
PhonepayPlus (2007-2016), ICSTIS (1986-2007)

The Phone-paid Services Authority (PSA) was the regulatory body for all premium rate phone-paid services in the United Kingdom between 2016 and 2025. It supervised the content, goods and services that consumers could buy by charging the cost to their phone bills and pre-pay phone accounts.