Mobile scheme aims to stop spam

Firms providing premium rate text services and content have teamed up with networks to let users cancel the services by sending a single text, reports the BBC.

Providers of new or existing services will have to be able to recognise the keyword "STOP" by 1 August 2004.

The scheme, launched by the Mobile Data Association (MDA), should give people more control over what is sent to them. "

emily | 11:35 AM | Spam, Viruses and Hoaxes |
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