The actual post I refer to started off with a warning about a scam where people received “Please call me” SMS. In response to the “please call me”, the customer was kept online having to answer senseless surveys with the call charges running up on their phone bills. The South African networks issued a warning against this scam that was doing the rounds.

Reading the posts I was quite astounded with the level of ignorance from the public side. Immediately legitimate SMS competitions (premium rated SMS) were drawn into the conversation with clear customer dissatisfaction being expressed. The following accusations were made in the particular post:

1. Networks were blamed for delivering the 072 “Please call me” SMS and supporting such practice.

2. Companies offering SMS competitions were blamed of not stating the cost per SMS clearly.

3. Mobile content companies were blamed for false advertising and clear anger was evident where customers submitted and paid for a download, but did not receive it.

Let’s take a look at this situation:

1. Networks being blamed for delivering “please call me” SMS:

For those that are not familiar with the “Please call me SMS” system here is a simple explanation. The system works on the old land line “collect call” basis where the mobile phone user send a SMS to someone they know to phone them. The person responding to the “Please call me” returns the call and foots the bill for the call.

I think the initial intention for the service was to render assistance to people that could not afford the call or run into trouble without prepaid airtime to phone for help in a crises situation. It was not long, however before the opportunity was grabbed by abusers of the system.

What the scammers do, is to send out “Please call me” SMS to random mobile phone numbers. The recipient unknowingly returns the call as they do think that it is from someone they know and requires assistance. The bad thing about the “Please call me” SMS is that the recipient has no way of knowing who sent the SMS as it does not support sender ID.

Upon answering the call, it turns out to be a call center doing a survey. The caller is kept online for as long as possible as each minute is charged to his/her phone bill at ridiculous rates – as much as ZAR 50-00 per minute. 10 Minutes online, results in ZAR 500-00 mobile phone bill of which the scammer in question get revenue share from the networks.

Issues at stake that we should question:

SHOULD THE NETWORKS BE BLAMED FOR THIS PRACTISE?

1. Working with the networks myself, I find it hard to believe that they will support such practice. Normally with any promotion the client has to state the nature of the promotion, as the Networks have to check whether or not the promotion is anti-sp@m policy compliant. Should the networks not investigate complaints like these and send out a Press release stating their position towards these sort of scams? Where are the network public relations officers?

2. Isn’t it the mobile phone user’s responsibility to NOT return any suspicious calls or SMS they receive?

3. Where does supplier responsibility end and customer responsibility start?

SMS warehouse is a division of E-SPECTATIONS.COM and has been involved with mobile technologies since 2000.

Very few people get such friends in their life time. Do you have one?

Don’t ever make a mistake to loose such friends in your life time. If you have some true friends, let them know how much they worth to you.

There are hundreds of ways to express your strong feeling towards your friends. But the easiest and the most reliable way is sending friendship sms.

You have a mobile in your hand and you are remembering your friend then don’t waste a single minute to send friendship sms to your friend.SMS not only signifies that you are remembering your friend but also helps to enhance your friendship relation.
It is a great idea to send Friendship sms. Because it makes your friend feel that someone is there for them who really miss them a lot.

You can reach out to your friends with your heartfelt love and gratitude for their love through the lovely friendship sms. Express all your emotions and feelings of missing them by this.
———————–

My heart’s like an open book.

It depends on how U read me.

Don’t judge me by my cover.

Look in and discover….

I will be ur True Friend forever…

———————–

Old Friends are Gold,

New Friends are Diamond,

If you get Diamond,

Don’t forget the Gold,

B’coz Gold only hold Diamond.

———————–

You just have to copy and send these friendship sms
to your friends.

This article was written by Rahul Roy of http://www.SMSFunOnline.com, you can find more hindi sms friendship messages at http://www.smsfunonline.com/category/friendship-sms/

The actual post I refer to started off with a warning about a scam where people received “Please call me” SMS. In response to the “please call me”, the customer was kept online having to answer senseless surveys with the call charges running up on their phone bills. The South African networks issued a warning against this scam that was doing the rounds.

Reading the posts I was quite astounded with the level of ignorance from the public side. Immediately legitimate SMS competitions (premium rated SMS) were drawn into the conversation with clear customer dissatisfaction being expressed. The following accusations were made in the particular post:

1. Networks were blamed for delivering the 072 “Please call me” SMS and supporting such practice.

2. Companies offering SMS competitions were blamed of not stating the cost per SMS clearly.

3. Mobile content companies were blamed for false advertising and clear anger was evident where customers submitted and paid for a download, but did not receive it.

Let’s take a look at this situation:

1. Networks being blamed for delivering “please call me” SMS:

For those that are not familiar with the “Please call me SMS” system here is a simple explanation. The system works on the old land line “collect call” basis where the mobile phone user send a SMS to someone they know to phone them. The person responding to the “Please call me” returns the call and foots the bill for the call.

I think the initial intention for the service was to render assistance to people that could not afford the call or run into trouble without prepaid airtime to phone for help in a crises situation. It was not long, however before the opportunity was grabbed by abusers of the system.

What the scammers do, is to send out “Please call me” SMS to random mobile phone numbers. The recipient unknowingly returns the call as they do think that it is from someone they know and requires assistance. The bad thing about the “Please call me” SMS is that the recipient has no way of knowing who sent the SMS as it does not support sender ID.

Upon answering the call, it turns out to be a call center doing a survey. The caller is kept online for as long as possible as each minute is charged to his/her phone bill at ridiculous rates – as much as ZAR 50-00 per minute. 10 Minutes online, results in ZAR 500-00 mobile phone bill of which the scammer in question get revenue share from the networks.

Issues at stake that we should question:

SHOULD THE NETWORKS BE BLAMED FOR THIS PRACTISE?

1. Working with the networks myself, I find it hard to believe that they will support such practice. Normally with any promotion the client has to state the nature of the promotion, as the Networks have to check whether or not the promotion is anti-sp@m policy compliant. Should the networks not investigate complaints like these and send out a Press release stating their position towards these sort of scams? Where are the network public relations officers?

2. Isn’t it the mobile phone user’s responsibility to NOT return any suspicious calls or SMS they receive?

3. Where does supplier responsibility end and customer responsibility start?

SMS warehouse is a division of E-SPECTATIONS.COM and has been involved with mobile technologies since 2000.

Very few people get such friends in their life time. Do you have one?

Don’t ever make a mistake to loose such friends in your life time. If you have some true friends, let them know how much they worth to you.

There are hundreds of ways to express your strong feeling towards your friends. But the easiest and the most reliable way is sending friendship sms.

You have a mobile in your hand and you are remembering your friend then don’t waste a single minute to send friendship sms to your friend.SMS not only signifies that you are remembering your friend but also helps to enhance your friendship relation.
It is a great idea to send Friendship sms. Because it makes your friend feel that someone is there for them who really miss them a lot.

You can reach out to your friends with your heartfelt love and gratitude for their love through the lovely friendship sms. Express all your emotions and feelings of missing them by this.
———————–

My heart’s like an open book.

It depends on how U read me.

Don’t judge me by my cover.

Look in and discover….

I will be ur True Friend forever…

———————–

Old Friends are Gold,

New Friends are Diamond,

If you get Diamond,

Don’t forget the Gold,

B’coz Gold only hold Diamond.

———————–

You just have to copy and send these friendship sms
to your friends.

This article was written by Rahul Roy of http://www.SMSFunOnline.com, you can find more hindi sms friendship messages at http://www.smsfunonline.com/category/friendship-sms/

MMS on the other hand is a “Multimedia Messaging System” used to send pictures, animations, and even video footage between mobile phones. There has been some speculation that MMS could eventually rise to completely take the place of the original SMS format.

Most industry analysts, however, believe this is unlikely, just because SMS is such a simple, easy, and convenient system to make use of. MMS is fun and interactive, but it isn’t always necessary for simple communications, and some people prefer the basic text format. Aside from this, the very culture of text messaging was built around the old text-only system with abbreviated words and 160 character limits.

Also, the fact that cell phone providers can get away with charging $0.10 per individual text message sent is an incentive for companies to keep promoting the system. The fact that SMS messaging use so little bandwidth makes them cost almost nothing to transmit, creating a huge cash cow for providers.

There’s little question that subscribers still desire the simplicity associated with good old plain text messaging, while providers are more than happy to keep making money off it. In short, SMS likely won’t be going anywhere anytime soon.

Jeremy Maddock is the webmaster of TeleClick.ca, a trusted source of telecommunications news.

SMS messages are by definition very short (under 160 characters), meaning that they use up very little bandwidth when compared with regular voice calls.

The SMS text messaging format was originally designed for use with GSM (Global System for Mobile) networks, but has since been extended to more advanced wireless technologies, including high-speed 3G networks.

Jeremy Maddock is the webmaster of TeleClick.ca, a trusted source of telecommunications news.