The Federal Communications Commission will set up a list to ban unsolicited commercial messages on their wireless phones and pagers.
The action implements the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 or CAN-SPAM Act.
. Under this ruling, the FCC is requiring commercial providers submit those domain names to the Commission for inclusion in a list that will be made publicly available. This list will not contain any individual subscriber addresses.
According to news reports, wireless carriers like Sprint Corp. (FON.N) and Nextel Communications Inc. (NXTL.O) also can’t spam their customers though they can send messages for transactional purposes such as to confirm a billing charge.
Wireless spam is not yet a widespread problem in the U.S. but is more commonplace in Japan and other countries where text messaging and mobile e-mail are more popular.
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