The Can-Spam Act passed by the FCC designed to reduce wireless spam go into effect today. Under the rules, marketers are prohibited from sending text-messages through the Internet to wireless devices, such as cell phones and PDAs. They don't apply to ads sent to e-mail addresses that are then forwarded to wireless devices such as BlackBerrys.
1. Read the details there... This doesn't prevent spam text messages. All this does is prevent spam to specific email addresses that are reserved for phones, such as your10digitphonenumber@cingular.com or whatever. Most carriers assign your phone number an email address that will automatically go to the phone -- which few people actually use.
That's all this announcement is about. It's not about stopping SMS spam.
Posted at 4:50AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Someone