FCC Revs Up Red Lights on Mobile Spam

[DreamSiren007]

The FCC voted early April to gather comments on filtering telemarketers and spam messages from reaching the cell-phone public. These opinions will assist them in outlining rules for senders to follow. Please click here (http://wireless.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=FCC_Invites_Comments_on_Mo bile_Spam&story_id=23347&category=3gw) to read the story.

[janos]

boy, it would be so nice to receive all that trash that arrives on my home phone while i am working... OH BOY!!!! yes, i am in favor of legislation to control these errant calls... the day i start getting this junk is the day i give up my cell..... you can tell pcs and the other carriers that too...that is how i will vote.........

[mbrenner]

I hope they do this well. Billions of dollars are at stake. Email spam is a total disaster. My employer is now having to make a huge investment in email servers. Mostly to store the 10 to 1 spam messages that each user gets per legitamate email. Think of the lost productivity due to spam email.

I would really like to have my email forwarded to my cell phone and get a notification, for actual email ment for me. But I cant be checking every Viagra, Breast enlargement, mortgage, guy in Africa needing to send money ... email.

Now SMS is an example of a really effective way to get me a message. However if it starts getting spammed then, we will all have to turn it off.

In California we have a law about junk Faxes. They are supposed to have 1 number to call to be removed from the database. Yet I have received junk faxes with many numbers to "remove". They should have to send you a confirmation fax so you can prosecute the next offender. I pay for ink on my fax machine, and these creeps send out large black graphics, so besided waisting paper they use about 5 times as much ink as a legitimate fax would. THIS IS THEFT OF MY PROPERTY!

Calling my cell phone uses up my minutes which I pay for so this is also theft, and sending SMS spam also costs recepients in many cases so it is also theft.

I only once got a spam phone call on a cell phone in my 12 years of owning one. I think that this is due to the fact the cell phones had their own exchanges in the past. Telemarketers knew that they would face a lot of hostility if they ventured on to them. However now that we have number portability cell phones don't have their own exchanges.

The due not call list has worked will for my home phone (a godsend!). I only get about 2 calls a month - because the non-profit exemption. If they got rid of this and other loopholes I would applaud this move. SMS spam needs to be delt with firmly from the start or this valuable tool will lost.

marty B.