US Senate tackles mobile spam


	US Senate tackles mobile spam

David M Ewalt

4-3-2009 12:53 PM

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sms, mobile, spam, senate, legislation

David M Ewalt says:

Mobile text spam is particularly insidious, since many consumers pay for every text message.

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Senators Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) on Thursday introduced the m-SPAM Act, which would strictly prohibit commercial text messages to wireless numbers listed on the Do Not Call registry. The bill would also give the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission more authority to regulate unwanted text messages.
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In 2007, U.S. consumers received approximately 1.1 billion text messages that they identified as "spam," according to <A href="http://www.ferris.com/2008/07/14/sms-text-message-spam-is-a-minor-problem/">Ferris Research</A>. That number increased from previous years, but still represents a small portion of the text messages consumers receive. In the month of June 2007 alone, 28.8 billion text messages were reported, according to the <A href="http://www.ctia.org/media/press/body.cfm/prid/1717">CTIA</A>.
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