Oversight must be beefed up to curb spam SMS

MANY SMARTPHONE USERS complain about receiving unwanted messages and that even after they send orders back to block such junk messages as instructed, the junk messages continue. Legal Daily comments:

A woman in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan province, complained that she received junk messages after buying coffee from an automatic dispensing machine. The message said she could reply "T" to block more messages in the future, but when she replied "T", she received even more junk messages.

That's a common problem for many smartphone users. According to reports, the telecom companies require commercial message senders to include a way for the recipients to block future messages in their content, so SMS spam senders include such statements.