UK mobile text spam rises to 4m messages per day

uSwitch calls for government pressure to stop spam According to new research from uSwitch SMS spam is rising at an alarming rate in the UK with mobile subscribers receiving, on average, 4 million spam messages per day. The research showed that messages are often fraudulent in nature (mostly premium rate call scams) and others are attempts to obtain the personal financial information that can be held in smartphones. Commenting on the report, uSwitch technology expert, Ernest Doku, called on the UK government to put pressure on the mobile networks to protect subscribers from these attacks. This is not good news for the operators. If the UK government follows France, Poland, India and China mobile networks will find themselves having to implement costly spam control policies that will inevitably result in lost revenues. The time has come for UK operators to address the mobile spam problem themselves before it gets out of control. As Duko concludes “If spam texts follows the same pattern as email spam, this problem is set to plague us all for some time to come.”