Post by rabeea on May 5, 2010 1:23:04 GMT
Ever since I have been here, apart from the terresterial phone at my Uncle's residence, I have been using a cell phone.
One of the most painful thing about cellular phones in Pakistan is the number of promotional text messages a subscriber receives.
I get get more than dozen everyday.
Cellular companies should be required, BY LAW, to seek permission from their subscribers regarding this.
It can be very easily done, right at the time when a subscriber fills up the form, in which there should be a prominent form asking the subscriber if she/he would like to receive advertisement messages on the phone.
Most such messages received are a nuisance.
Responsible cellular companies maintain two databases of subscribers, a public and a restricted one. This should be implemented in Pakistan too, legally mandated by law.
This would, perhaps reduce the volume of text messages a bit, also reducing phone companies' revenues and the taxes the government collects thereon.
Both losses could be offset by raising the prices of the databases the cell phone companies realize by making their databses avaulable to such marketers who use text-message marketing.
