China Mobile taking action to stop the mobile spamming

My last post on China’s mobile industry can be found here:

http://chinese-net-gaming-stock.blogspot.com/2008/03/fmcn-apologized-for-mobile-spamming.html

From the FMCN mess, China Mobile also apologized.

http://it.sohu.com/20080320/n255805285.shtml

http://tech.sina.com.cn/t/2008-03-19/17482087916.shtml

In addition, it provides some additional information that I think is very interesting for the whole Mobile Value Added Service (MVAS) industry.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/t/2008-03-20/09342089505.shtml

I will translate in the following.

In Guangdong province, the number of customer complains had went down from 1378 cases in 2006 down to 1022 cases, or a decrease of 27%.

In the coming year, the government will emphasize on three areas for enforcement. First, IVR; second, SMS spamming; and third, un-solicited voice emails.

I think most of the SP had been nailed by SMS spamming. Therefore, I think companies like SINA, KONG, HRAY, and LTON had learned their lessons.

I am not familiar with illegal IVR and un-solicited voice emails and how much the above mentioned companies’ involvement in these two areas. Even though I don’t think the above four companies are involved, but it is something needs to keep track of.