Vodafone talks about charging spammers

Getting spam on your mobile phone is annoying. Vodafone apparently wants to help stop that, via charging spammers to do so.

Of course this is a win-win for them - they look like they care, and they make a ton of money off of it. But to be fair, that is exactly what will greatly reduce spam down to a more reasonable level of annoying ads.
That said, it won't prevent big money companies from spending the money, but people generally seem to have less of a problem getting a text message from McDonalds when near one reminding them that they need more grease, than they do getting one telling them that their penis is too small while out at a bar.

My favorite part of this article is:

"If you want to send a million messages to our users, you'd better have a million times 10 cents," Vodafone public policy executive Rob Borthwick told the Openwave Messaging Anti-Abuse conference in London.

Hmm, 10 million times 10 cents eh? I think they also refer to that as "One Million Dollars".
(That's just begging for some stupid Dr. Evil joke.)

Posted by Eric at June 8, 2004 07:59 AM | TrackBack