Following the launch of a joint platform for dealing with spam short message in June this year, the three major telecom operators in China have now each worked out a spam short message screening service to help users block unwanted SMS.
Of these operators, China Telecom has formally launched a short message filtering service for its mobile phone users. The service allows mobile phone users to blacklist or whitelist their contacts. If a user chooses the blacklist, short messages sent by contacts on the blacklist will all be automatically filtered. If the user chooses to use the whitelist, all short messages sent the user — with the exception of those sent by the contacts on the whitelist — will be filtered out. In addition, the service enables users to set a schedule for the filtering.
China Unicom has completed the development of three client terminal software packages that the company hopes will form an SMS firewall for users across the country.
China Mobile has also launched a special client terminal software package for users to manage their information by combining the functions of a short message firewall, private space and short message whitelist and blacklist. Being a free service, it can help users effectively filter unwanted ads, illegal short messages, and pornographic information sent to their phones.
