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November 25, 2009
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| The number of text messages a mobile phone user in Korea can send in one day will be limited to 500, down from 1,000, starting today. The Korea Communications Commission announced yesterday that it had agreed with all three mobile operators here - SK Telecom, KT and LG Telecom - to lower their daily text message limits. “There have been increasing instances in which someone illegally opens several mobile phone registrations [and numbers] simultaneously in order to send spam text messages,” said a KCC official. “After some preliminary research, we decided that 500 messages is the appropriate limit to minimize subscriber damage from spam messaging.” The KCC added that anyone who needs to send more than 500 text messages a day for some reason can submit an application for an exception to his or her mobile operator. The agency also said that people found to have abused a special offer of limitless text messaging to adolescent phone users would be banned from the service, while those caught sending spam text messages will be limited to only one mobile phone number from one operator in the future. By Cho Jae-eun [jainnie@joongang.co.kr] |
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