SMS Spam.
I haven't seen this happening in my country as yet but the threat is real. Considering the rate at which the cost of messaging on mobile networks is going down day by day we might see the advent of SMS spamming over our mobile networks. The entity is not all that non existent even at these rates. I receive on average one forwarded SMS every day that has an unnecessary joke or a thing or two like that. Doesn't annoy me at this rate but I wonder my angst if this were to increase. Since Telenor has provided free SMS facility to its customers during summers this could provoke commercial geniuses into channeling their advertising efforts on the SMS. This would become a problem for both the customer and the vendor of the service. We being customers don not want our privacies to be encroached in this shoudy manner and the vendor doesn't want to over crowd its network with spam messages going berserk. It is safe, thus, for both customer and vendor to keep the messaging rates at equilibrium. The rates should act as a deterrence towards spam.
I must say the idea of spamming my interests through SMS came to my mind too when I heard that networks were going to provide free SMS services to their customers but the egg broke in between just because I didn't have anything to spam! Not everyone out there is as resource less as I am in this department.
I haven't seen this happening in my country as yet but the threat is real. Considering the rate at which the cost of messaging on mobile networks is going down day by day we might see the advent of SMS spamming over our mobile networks. The entity is not all that non existent even at these rates. I receive on average one forwarded SMS every day that has an unnecessary joke or a thing or two like that. Doesn't annoy me at this rate but I wonder my angst if this were to increase. Since Telenor has provided free SMS facility to its customers during summers this could provoke commercial geniuses into channeling their advertising efforts on the SMS. This would become a problem for both the customer and the vendor of the service. We being customers don not want our privacies to be encroached in this shoudy manner and the vendor doesn't want to over crowd its network with spam messages going berserk. It is safe, thus, for both customer and vendor to keep the messaging rates at equilibrium. The rates should act as a deterrence towards spam.
I must say the idea of spamming my interests through SMS came to my mind too when I heard that networks were going to provide free SMS services to their customers but the egg broke in between just because I didn't have anything to spam! Not everyone out there is as resource less as I am in this department.
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