Get Ready for Mobile Spam During Indian Elections

Indian mobile subscribers will get deluged with political messages during the upcoming political elections in the country, according to Times of India. "We're making software that enable up to one crore [10 million] SMSs to be sent every hour, using multiple parallel servers," said Sundeep Dhaliwal, who runs software company Ajmer Infotech.

However, the lead political party BJP is more cautious: "With junk SMSs now proliferating, unsolicited messages might turn off prospective voters," said party spokesman Amitabh Sinha.

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