Gary Corbett wants unscrupulous sms traders banned

[El Gringo]

http://www.silicon.com/research/spec...599,00.htm?r=1
Mobile spam: Is the next plague upon us?
Published: Wednesday 11 June 2003

Gary Corbett, MD for Opera Telecom, which operates premium mobile phone services for companies such as EMAP and Tiscali, said: "It's about time SMS service providers and network operators started to take more responsibility for self-regulation in order to safeguard the credibility of our fledgling industry.

"SMS has been on the crest of a wave as marketeers start to appreciate the potential of its application within their environment. However, ICSTIS [the mobile phone regulator the Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Services] continues to receive a growing number of consumer complaints as some mobile gateway companies consistently ignore guidelines and exploit consumers."

Corbett has little sympathy for those companies bringing his industry into disrepute.

"Let's get tough with offenders and impose heavy penalties for misuse of SMS services," he said. "And if necessary let's lobby to terminate licence agreements and access to networks. This way we can banish the unscrupulous traders to history."

Gary Corbett ought to put the suggestion to Ofcom.