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Mobile Messaging Revenues to Defy Economic Downturn

.. from potential security threats such as mobile fraud, spam and viruses." The study was carried out by comScore M:Metrics.  more

Related Tags: mobile-messaging, sms, comscore, eu, text-messages, UK


Operators Should Control - Not Ban - Data Roaming Services

..at is being delivered over their network to the user, in terms of blocking spam and viruses, and in the case of vulnerable users, inappropriate or intimidating messages and imagery. They should also make steps to better protect roaming users from more

Related Tags: sms, roaming, arpu, mobile-broadband, operating-system


Mobile Operators Brace for Global Surge in Mobile Messaging Abuse

..ing abuse trends in Asia, North America and Europe which point to a precipitous rise in mobile spam, phishing and virus attacks in 2008. In the past year, Cloudmark has worked closely with leading mobile operators across the globe to help them a more

Related Tags: google, sim-card, mobile-messaging, text-messaging, walled-garden, chief-technology-officer, mobile-advertising, virus, sms-spam, cloudmark, smsc, storm


Enhanced Spam Filtering Could Block Independent Ringtone Suppliers

.. is launching a Spam Control Centre product, which directly addresses a fundamental mobile phone spamming issue, by allowing operators to automatically detect and block all types of unwanted content and harmful SMS and MMS traffic from any foreign ne more

Related Tags: m1, virus, ringtone, symbian, sms-spam, smsc


Australian PrePay Usage Jumps This Year

..e211,318315,71149%Calls to the 106 emergency callservice relayed to emergency service organisations298291-2%Connected records in the IntegratedPublic Number Database39,725,11443,585,83310%Interim and alternative servicesprovided by Telstra under the  more

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Blocking SMS Spam

Jinny Software has launched SMS and MMS spam blocker for operators. The Jinny spam Control Centre offers spam filtering to reduce the occurrence of message spamming and helps maintain the required reputation of an Operators' Network. The Content filtering functionality blocks value added content like pictures and ring-tones from non-network partners and protects the Operators revenues. Operators can also apply key word filters to all network traffic enabling the censorship of messages or the possibility, if required, to track threatening messages. more

Related Tags: sms-spam, smsc


Moves to block unauthorised SMS spam subscriptions

The Liberty Alliance has said that it is working on a new standard that will prevent customers phone numbers being passed to 3rd party content providers, while still enabling the provider to deliver information or content back to the phone, using a proxy id code. This is aimed to prevent unexpected subscription services being added to a customers account - not mentioning any crazy frogs. more

Related Tags: privacy


MMS - Following the Pattern

..ty of mobile phones brings with it the sense of it being a 'personal' device and intolerance of Spam is probably higher here that with email. The challenge, as always, is to ensure that the content is rich and relevant to the user and that they only  more

Related Tags: ovum, text-messaging, java, orange-uk


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