MegaFon managed to halve the number of SMS-spam this month

A month after the start of full blocking SMS-messages coming to the network operator with the "short" and a character-literal numbers of other mobile networks, MegaFon notes substantially reduce the amount of spam reaching the subscribers. Intellectual platform for the month of "spam" MegaFon was blocked 240 million spam messages, which is twice more than a month ago, at the same time the number of customer complaints on spam has decreased by 3 times. From the fifth November 2013 MegaFon began blocking messages from "short" alphanumeric character and digital numbers coming in from other network operators. Today seen a positive result is that with the growth of spam messages coming in MegaFon network from other networks, the amount of spam reaching the subscribers has declined significantly, the company said. According to the operator, block SMS-spam coming from a "short" Alphanumeric -character numbers, can significantly reduce the amount of spam. But in order to fully cope with this problem, it is necessary to amend the legislation to the operators and the regulator has the ability to block spam SMS-coming and conventional subscriber numbers. So, MegaFon noted that he supports the bill, developed by the Federation Council Gattarova RW provisions of the bill include the duty operator to control all distribution and block spam that enters the network.