An order made by the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission this week declared that every one cell phone operators should now block junk messages and fraudulent SMS. The order is aimed at curbing unsolicited junk messages on people’s cellphones and protecting them from scams or malicious advertisements.
The new order went into effect on September 23 and applies to all cell phone operators in Thailand, in accordance with the secretary-general of the NBTC. Thailand’s cell phone operators AIS, DTAC, NT, True, and 3BB at the second are required to block junk and fraudulent messages together with those about on-line lending, gambling, and any pornographic materials.
The new decree requires each of the operators to share their phone information of such spam with each other in order to band malicious senders throughout all operators.
Any telecommunication operator that works with contact providers to help them or allow them to send junk messages considered fraudulent are malicious like these listed above might be topic to punishment as properly. The penalties may start with warnings but escalate to fines and the chance of the suspension of their working license or complete termination of a license.
The NBTC may even publish on their website details about those who send junk messages like this. Inexpensive can check the NBTC website to see if a message they acquired has been flagged as malicious so as to defend themselves from fraud, scams or hackers..