iPhone text message spam is a common problem. Have you ever received spam text messages Verizon [here are some interesting holiday’s deals from Verizon and AT&T]? Or have you ever come across spam text messages AT T issue? The FCC could allow imposing common network regulations on text messaging by accepting the Twilio’s petition. The U.S. carriers are not happy that the status of SMS is unsettled. Why?
US carriers block spam – they assure they do this with text messages. They are asking the Federal Communications Commission to rejet the petition by Twilio that declares SMS to be under Title II regulation. American mobile operators believe that this petition would prevent them from blocking spam while the document is meant to stop throttling / blocking the text message traffic in the U.S.
Could millions of Verizon iPhone and AT&T iPhone users get tons of spam mobile messages eventually? T-Mobile and Sprint are also against the petition. At the same time Twilio believes that mobile operators can block text messages to boost their revenue.
The net neutrality rules offered by the FCC forbid carriers to block messages that are delivered via Internet. Still these rules do not clarify the SMS status. Companies that rely on text messaging don’t want carriers to block SMS so they are trying to convince the FCC to stop mobile operators.
Ordinary users don’t participate in the new ‘war’ between carriers and companies that want to send / receive text messages to / from their customers. What will the FCC do? Would it support U.S. companies or listen to carriers and take their side? Who will win this time?
iPhone users should not suffer from spam and at the same time they would most likely enjoy communicating with companies via SMS. What do you think about this situation?