Re:Paying for unsolicited SMS (Score 2, Interesting)

I also work for a wireless carrier, but since I am in the switch, I won't pimp the carrier. Basically, we run a linux based SMS server which is intellegent enough to stop spam messages of this kind. It looks at the recipient address, and if it sees that it is just a sequential count, it blocks that message, and any further messages from the offending sender. Occassionally, we are supposed to go through and make sure none of our subscribers are on the blocked list, and if they are, we have our customer support contact them, and find out if this was an error. There hasn't been any abuse (by our customers) so far. Not having to pay for the SMS is fine, but since I get status messages, and complaints via SMS, I have to check the damn thing every time it beeps. Getting a ping pong of negative ads would definately mess with my very limited off time. I don't know if any of the bigger carriers have this kind of filtering. Just my 2 cents, and I could be wrong.