[kictanet] SPAM/OPT IN/OPT OUT MARKETING FROM THE TELCOS - DEATH BY SMS

[Adam Nelson]

On a related note, does Kenya have phone number portability so that people
can just switch carriers.  I personally think structural solutions like
that are better than regulatory ones like banning SMS alerts (although I
would certainly be in favor of that too).

In the US, one can switch a phone number to another carrier in under an
hour.

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On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Andrea Bohnstedt <
andrea.bohnstedt at ratio-magazine.com> wrote:

> I have - slightly laboriously - managed to get myself unsubscribed from
> Airtel's permanent (and sometimes badly spelled and edited) text messages
> by contacting someone in the firm I knew. But since then, Safcom's
> messaging has really picked up, so if there's anyone on this list has a
> contact (or an automated mechanism) to opt out, I'd also like to know.
>
> Plus any way of preventing the Safaricom dongle from automatically opening
> their bundles website?
>
>
> On 2 May 2013 14:38, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
>
>> Listers
>>
>> If you are like me you must by now be going out of your mind with useless
>> SMS messages from the different players in the Telco sector.
>>
>> Is there some rule somewhere that CCK can dust off and ask them to stop
>> sending these SMSs to 'abused' subscribers like myself.
>>
>>  Or at the very least could you at least give us an option to Opt Out of
>> this deluge of useless (in my opinion) SMSs?
>>
>> In my case I am specifically referring to Safaricom. I know that
>> Safaricom has sophisticated Mass Customisation tools and if they use their
>> Analytic Tools they would have known that for a Muslim (assuming in the
>> majority of cases they would make deductions by name usage) a message that
>> reads:-
>>
>> *'Watch Pastor Tim's Sunday Sermon...' *
>>
>> is particularly useless for a Muslim. If I were a Conspiracy Theorist
>> (Luckily I am not. :-)) I may start making assumptions that Safaricom wants
>> to convert me to a Christian.
>>
>> Dear Safaricom, please give me an option to opt out of your SMS deluge..
>>
>> Death by SMS :-)
>>
>>
>> *Ali Hussein*
>>
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>>
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