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Article: Service providers hold key to blocking text message spam.(Security News and Products)
- Article from:
- Database and Network Journal
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Reports that text message spam is set to increase in 2007 * are no cause for concern, according to content security expert, Marshal. Marshal's Director of Product Management, Bradley Anstis, believes that text message spam will never grow to epidemic proportions because service providers will proactively block spam in a bid to meet contractual usage agreements and minimise customer churn to rival networks.
Unlike email spam, which Marshal's TRACE threat monitoring team estimates at 83% of all email, text message spam will remain a mere drop in the ocean when compared to the number of text messages sent every year.
According to Anstis: "Many people worry ...