I was reading Hilary's post about " Mobile spam" and it triggered my interest. Imagine that you go out with for friends to have fun and the mobile phone starts bipping with undesirable spam messages. What you would do? I would shut it down!
Experts agree that the time to stop mobile spam is now, before it becomes a huge problem and before opportunities for legitimate revenue are lost. Accordnig to Susan Wu, partner development manager for security at Sun Microsystems "Mobile spam is definitely on the rise, and the cost to mobile phone users quickly adds up. For every mobile message sent, a toll may be charged to both sender and recipient".But if the companies want to continue use this tool they have to use anti spam programms in order to blog the undesirable messages.
A recent survey by Rainier PR, a U.K. public relations firm, showed that 82 percent of respondents said all unsolicited commercial messages are unacceptable. On the other hand, 72 percent said they would opt in to receive location-based services on their mobile phones. Source:http://www.sun.com/br/0104_ezine/comms_spam.html
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