China to Limit Texting as Anti-Spam Measure
June 12, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Cellphones
The proposed limit isn’t for censorship purposes mind you; To deal with rampant text spam, the government will put a cap on the number of messages a mobile number can send in a day, reported the state media. The scheme calls for limits of 200 messages per hour and 1,000 messages per weekday.
eems SMS spam is really bad in China, with Reuters reporting that “dozens” of unsolicited messages received in a day “is not unusual”. China’s three major service providers, China Telecom, China Mobile Limited and China Unicom have agreed to implement the government SMS limits.
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