More concern over spam by SMS

According to an interesting article in Instant Messaging Planet, wireless messaging's successes are being marred by increasing worry over abuse. This week, the Federal Trade Commission held an anti-spam workshop in Washington, D.C, which some experts said is likely to choke the fledgling industry before it gets going in earnest.

Jiro Murayama, a manager at NTT DoComo, painted a bleak picture of how the future might look if wireless spam continues unabated in the U.S: "DoCoMo has seen days during which 150 million pieces of spam were transmitted over its networks -- to a subscriber base of 38 million".

And though new legislation in Japan has been established aimed at curbing spam, still, about a third of DoCoMo's users receive up to five wireless spam messages daily.

emily | 9:12 AM | Spam, Viruses and Hoaxes |
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