Did some of you notice that lately, most (not all) of the text messages you are receiving are duplicated?

On the other hand, when you try to send an SMS, the first attempt will give you a Failed error message then on the second attempt, the message will be sent.

I tested it and I got charged for two messages though the first attempt was not successful. the test message that I sent only says “This is a test.”. The test message was received twice by the recipient.

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this should’ve been done a lonnngggg time ago.

I disagree completely with you premise and I think you do not understand the amendments. This blocks CP from the initial contact, unless you imitate it. So he choice is yours whether you wish to get spamed or not. You are free to ask to be spamed as you wish.

The basic premise here is so important that the rest is immaterial. This stops one of the many “gotcha” business the have sprouted up here. The purpose of these businesses is to trick greedy people into subbing to a service for the 1 free ringtone, game or whatever. Once they sub then they are charged for every subsequent text. It will drain a pre paid load fast. That is what Yuga is talking about.

Gotcha business are a plague upon people. If you or your GF or whoever is into that business then I wish you go straight to hell.

Once they finish tackling these small potatoes, I wish they will go after the banks and the gotcha tactics of the credit card industry.

Thanks. Yeah I think understand the memo, its the logic of it that I cant come to terms with

I’d still argue that while this may benefit consumers now (if that is at all true), it would be counter productive in the future. The end does not justify the means.

Nice post btw! I just realized how rude I was not to say that on my first post/novel.

1. I’d like to DECIDE MYSELF what annoys me. I don’t need the NTC to decide that for me. My ex-girlfriend annoys me, and as things go, I should petition for the NTC to ban her from using a celphone too.

2. “Commercial and promotional advertisements, surveys and other broadcast messages shall be allowed only if prior consent from the subscribers is secured.” ….So instead of sending me text-spam, they send me “invitations” to receive text-spam….I don’t see how that changes anything.

3. I don’t quite comprehend the argument on messages being “unsolicited”. Its like saying “People greeted me through text on my birthday without me asking them to. Damn all of them for sending unsolicited text.” From the same logic, the NTC should ban all messages from my boss, and my mother in law.

4. “Push messages shall not be allowed.” Ahh, right. So now I have to log-on to a server to “Pull” my text messages like email?

SMS=PUSH. Thats the whole concept of it. How exactly does this change that technology?

5. What is the correlation of unsolicited text to vanishing load? You see, what I’m more interested in is statistical data on how many — how should I say this politely — “more responsible” users suffer from this “vanishing load” phenomena everyone is talking about. I’d bet my MacBook the numbers wouldn’t be so compelling.

Fact is people get suckered into these things by ACTUALLY REPLYING and AGREEING to them. The way I understand it, the NTC is protecting the SMS using public, because apparently people cannot think for themselves, and they get duped from their peso very very easily. Thanks.

Bottomline: “You can’t open a window and only let the nice things in. You just have to know which is which.”

Because of the memo, I think the industry will be able to adjust to this new reality and will bounce back. There are other means of bending the NTC rules and they will definitely be creative in this.

The NTC should address also spam which comes from people who randomly send unsolicited text regarding cash loans, bank loads, different product info and alike.

Is that what they are saying?