Arizona Court Applies Law Banning Mobile Spam to Text Messages
An Arizona court has ruled that a 1991 federal ban
on using autodialers to call cell phones also prohibits sending mobile text messages with unsolicited advertisements -- a technology not in vogue when the law was enacted. The unanimous decision by a three-judge Court of Appeals panel upholds a ruling in favor of a man who had sued a mortgage company in 2001
after it sent two unsolicited text messages to his cell phone.
Court: Law Applies To Mobile Spam, Associated Press, September 21, 2005.
