China embarrassed by ‘Text-message Gate’
p2pnet news | Mobiles:- China is looking into complaints that millions of cell phone users were flooded with spam.
“Text-message Gate,” as it’s being called, “has drawn apologies from a major advertiser and the country’s biggest mobile phone carrier, China Mobilem,” says the Associated Press.
“The commercial text messages were sent to more than 200 million mobile phone users through two companies – China Mobile and its smaller rival, China Unicom.”
In a post on the the State Council’s website, “We urge parties concerned to beef up self-scrutiny to correct their wrongdoing, which is profit-seeking in defiance of public interests,” says Liu Yue, deputy head of the State Council’s Office for Rectifying Malpractice.
Adds AP:
“Jason Jiang Nanchun, chairman of Nasdaq-traded Focus Media Holding Ltd., an advertising network operator, issued a public apology last week. ‘Jiang Nanchun did admit this in public, although there was nothing pornographic in the messages, just some ads, said a company spokeswoman for Focus, who gave only her surname, Wu.”
Also See:
Associated Press – China to probe online text message spam , March 24, 2008
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