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[log in to unmask]>, at 12:35:30 on Tue, 10 Apr
2007, Tim Trent <[log in to unmask]> writes
>I just read this snippet from Malaysia. Not only is SMS spam legal (?)
>there, you can be charged for receiving it, if I read the article right!
It costs money to receive SMS in the USA (on many/most types of account)
and I'm sure they won't be the only place that makes a charge on the
recipient of mobile calls (which includes SMS, of course).
You could try to argue that such a charge makes it even more important
to ban unsolicited calls (including SMS), but I've never been able to
get much traction for that point of view when applied to unsolicited
emails received on a pay-as-you-use Internet connection (such as GPRS
which charges by the byte, or GSM which charges by the second, which is
effectively per byte).
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Roland Perry
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