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Article: Mobile spam: coming to your mobile phone?(spamming of emails in mobile phones)
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- Law Enforcement Technology
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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It's hard to find people who don't rely on mobile phones for personal or business use. According to the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA), more than 180 million wireless subscribers exist nationwide. This number grew by 13.7 percent since 2004 and the wireless minutes used rose to more than 1 trillion that year, a 33 percent increase from 2003.
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Although the statistics don't show the number of public safety users, the existence of wireless services that enhance public safety communications show carriers' interest in that market base. At Nextel Communications, for instance, Russell Wilkerson, director of ...