All Articles in Mobile marketing

With consumer complaints over premium rate SMS services and their marketing exponentially increasing, ICSTIS proposes new guidelines.    Topic: M-Commerce Who:   The Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of…

Increasing unsolicited marketing SMS has put the spotlight on the as yet under-used statutory Telephone Preference Service. But is the TPS relevant to this particular marketing medium?    Topic: M-Commerce…

The limitations of the Telephone Preference Service were highlighted in this case of million-plus texts to unsuspecting recipients.   Topic: M-commerce Who: Moby Monkey, ICSTIS and DMA When:  August 2002…

In the Mobile Marketing Association’s new revised Code, backed by a “three strikes and you’re out” enforcement procedure, text marketing gets tighter controls, but what about the numerous laws already…

Euro MPs have voted for a relaxation of current tight restrictions on use of location data for marketing, but in other respects it looks like general “opt-in” come 2004.  …

Premium rate SMS has become hugely popular, and premium rate line watchdog ICSTIS has published guidelines for those marketing and providing them.   Topic:  M Commerce Who:    The Independent Committee…

It’s that draft Communications Data Protection Directive again and this time it’s m-commerce marketing methods under the regulators’ spotlight.   Who: Council of EU telecoms ministers Where: Brussels When: December…

With the explosive growth of SMS marketing the industry is getting its act together with an initiative to establish a text messaging preference service. For the low-down click here  …

The Wireless Advertising Association is probably the world’s leading trade body representing companies operating in the sector. So what it says about ad messaging on mobiles is worth checking out.…

As the new Distance Selling Regulations stipulate different cancellation periods depending on whether goods or services are bought, just where do mobile phones by mail order fit into this?  …