Dodgy SMS services feel WASPA's sting
Bretton posted an email earlier refering to the following Dodgy SMS services feel WASPA's sting article on ITWeb.
[Johannesburg, 11 October 2004] - A watchdog body has been set up to
guard the mobile industry against unscrupulous SMS services that rip off consumers.
The Wireless Application Service Providers Association (WASPA) has been established by industry players, with seed money from the three cellular operators, and is an organisation aimed at providing protection to service providers.
According to WASPA's deputy chairman, Pieter de Villiers of Clickatell, it is impossible to monitor all the third-party traffic that is pushed over a network, so the association has been formed to protect service providers from being held liable for defamatory or illegal third-party content.
