Avi Lior wrote: > > > There is no cost to spam. It is purely an annoyance factor. > > There is no cost to spam? Ha. Wakeup!!!! > > Here are two real cases that effect me directly. I pay for my service per > volume (per octet). Therefore it costs me real $$$$ to receive spam. > > Secondaly, the other day I received 4 spam SMS messages. Never mind the > annoyance of having to get the warning, open the phone, navigate through the > messages, and delete them. When I got my wireless bill, I was pleasantly > rewarded by a charge of 10 cents for each SMS message!!!! > <lots snipped> Reverse billing - a known and very worrying phenomenon that has been appearing in what is normally regarded as Calling Party Pays territory ..... -- Dominic Pinto ------------- Independent Adviser Public & International Policy - Strategy - Regulation - PR - Commercial Covent Garden London United Kingdom ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cellphone/GSM Mobile: +44 780 302 8268 Fax: +44 207 379-8341 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Associated with http://www.telespherelimited.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Friend or Former Student of University of Newcastle upon Tyne? Join us: See http://www.ncl.ac.uk/alumni ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out FITCE Congress 2003 Berlin at http://www.fitce.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------