Pakistani Operator Blocking Spam SMSs
Pakistan Mobile Communications, better known as Mobilink GSM, has deployed Tekelec’s TekMedia AntiSpam Firewall Solution to try and block SMS spam messages being sent to its subscribers.
“SMS spam is a growing problem around the world and it’s directly affecting our customers today,” said Yousaf Allah Dad, senior manager of engineering at Core Value Added Services Group. “We’ve chosen Tekelec’s SMS Firewall solution to help us fight the problem because it allows us to use rules-based filtering to stop the delivery of unwanted messages, and protects our network and customers from costly viruses, flooding and spoofing attacks.”
Spam also has the potential to create an effective denial-of-service condition by filling up the SIM card's memory on a cell phone. TekMedia can be configured to detect different spoofing techniques and can adapt to new techniques. Spoofing brings the risk that soon SMS service will suffer as much from spam as e-mails do today.
“SMS spam is quickly becoming the next big problem for service providers. There has been rapid development of technology that allows relatively cheap ways to send SMS spam using the Internet,” said Wolrad Claudy, Tekelec’s senior vice president of global sales. “We’ve worked directly with Mobilink to deploy an anti-spam solution that will not only meet their demands for more efficient network operations, but also provide a better experience for their customers.”
Mobilink has been a Tekelec customer since 2004, when they first deployed the EAGLE 5 Integrated Signaling Solution, Performance Management, Number Portability, Equipment Identity Register (EIR) and Map Screening solutions. To monitor network activity, Mobilink also chose Tekelec’s IAS Monitoring solution.
Posted to the site on 22nd July 2008
