Recent NTC Memo could kill CP Business

what about the messages from private numbers who offer CASH LOANS? Is there any way of stopping them?

This is the RIGHT THING.

CP Business feeds on ignorance. Really is annoying.

90%? thats big. but im sure most consumer are not aware that they are charged every week

I’m glad NTC is finally doing something about this unsolicited sms. These CPs are robbing people.

Spam SMS are intrusive… It’s our right to be free from annoying messages…

finally. It took quite a while but I’m damn happy that the NTC has taken action.

I’m not sure I understand the other comments, but allow me to point out a few things…

1. I’d like to DECIDE MYSELF what annoys me. I don’t need the NTC to decide that for me. My ex-girlfriend annoys me, and as things go, I should petition for the NTC to ban her from using a celphone too.

2. “Commercial and promotional advertisements, surveys and other broadcast messages shall be allowed only if prior consent from the subscribers is secured.” ….So instead of sending me text-spam, they send me “invitations” to receive text-spam….I don’t see how that changes anything.

3. I don’t quite comprehend the argument on messages being “unsolicited”. Its like saying “People greeted me through text on my birthday without me asking them to. Damn all of them for sending unsolicited text.” From the same logic, the NTC should ban all messages from my boss, and my mother in law.

4. “Push messages shall not be allowed.” Ahh, right. So now I have to log-on to a server to “Pull” my text messages like email?

SMS=PUSH. Thats the whole concept of it. How exactly does this change that technology?

5. What is the correlation of unsolicited text to vanishing load? You see, what I’m more interested in is statistical data on how many — how should I say this politely — “more responsible” users suffer from this “vanishing load” phenomena everyone is talking about. I’d bet my MacBook the numbers wouldn’t be so compelling.

Fact is people get suckered into these things by ACTUALLY REPLYING and AGREEING to them. The way I understand it, the NTC is protecting the SMS using public, because apparently people cannot think for themselves, and they get duped from their peso very very easily. Thanks.

Bottomline: “You can’t open a window and only let the nice things in. You just have to know which is which.”

si enrile ata may pakana neto. anyway, it’s a good move for the benefit of the consumers.

@Ton

I disagree completely with you premise and I think you do not understand the amendments. This blocks CP from the initial contact, unless you imitate it. So he choice is yours whether you wish to get spamed or not. You are free to ask to be spamed as you wish.

The basic premise here is so important that the rest is immaterial. This stops one of the many “gotcha” business the have sprouted up here. The purpose of these businesses is to trick greedy people into subbing to a service for the 1 free ringtone, game or whatever. Once they sub then they are charged for every subsequent text. It will drain a pre paid load fast. That is what Yuga is talking about.

Gotcha business are a plague upon people. If you or your GF or whoever is into that business then I wish you go straight to hell.

Once they finish tackling these small potatoes, I wish they will go after the banks and the gotcha tactics of the credit card industry.

i’ve been a victim of these push messages from sun cellular. i noticed that whenever i have regular load credits, after a few hours, my load will just drop down to 0 ‘coz of all the unauthorized ads they send me. and, take note, i didn’t accept any kind of ad or subscription from them. i even called sun’s cellular’s customer service hotline and they couldn’t give me a straight answer.

this should’ve been done a lonnngggg time ago.

Globe found another way to eat up our load!

Did some of you notice that lately, most (not all) of the text messages you are receiving are duplicated?

On the other hand, when you try to send an SMS, the first attempt will give you a Failed error message then on the second attempt, the message will be sent.

I tested it and I got charged for two messages though the first attempt was not successful. the test message that I sent only says “This is a test.”. The test message was received twice by the recipient.

Haynakerrrrr Globe talaga.. para-paraan grrrrrrrrr

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