The CMT cancels the premium rate number and DataTalk OVsms and add 12 cancellations since 2009

 

The Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) has canceled the service numbering short text messages and multimedia messages Vitual Operator SMS (OVsms) and DataTalk twelve numbers and addition and Premium SMS canceled since 2009, when it adopted the code of conduct premium rate services.
In the latter case, the Commission for Supervision of Premium Rate Services (CSSTA) has accredited the breach of code of conduct for the services provided through the number 797007 and 795600, whose owners are OVsms and DataTalk, respectively.
For this reason, the telecoms regulator has decided to cancel the allocation of these numbers, which will become free in the public register of numbering, but can not be assigned to any company until after one year.
Under current rules, companies that provide services based on SMS Premium must comply with the code of conduct approved in 2009 that regulates, among other methods to unsubscribe, prices, content and advertising.
Thus, when the CSSTA considers that a company is in breach of the Code of Conduct, asked the CMT to cancel that number and the telecommunications regulatory body, as well as remove the numbering from the operator that fails, prevents any company can reuse that number during the period of one year.

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Facebook operator must register as a platform if you want to manage SMS Forwarding

Facebook should register as an operator and report their activity to the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) if you want to manage a storage platform and forwarding of text messages (SMS), and that it would take "real" electronic communications services as a resolution of the CMT.

In the resolution, the telecommunications regulatory body said that Facebook, whose business model consists mainly of managing a virtual social network, offers customers of Telefonica Moviles Spain the opportunity to update their data via SMS.

The company now wishes to extend this service to all users on your network regardless of operator, or providing the service itself or through an operator of storage and forwarding of short messages.

In this sense, the CMT Facebook warns that the notification service that wants to provide not an electronic communications service must be notified to the regulator, but the provision of storage and forwarding associated with it themselves, so the company be entered in the register, since the allocation of numbering can only be made in favor of an electronic communications operator registered.

In addition, Facebook is asking, in the case of registering as an operator of electronic communications services store and forward message on how you would calculate the gross amount of the overall rate of operators required.

In this sense, the CMT explains that calculation shall be made according to the amounts charged to the activity Facebook electronic communications and not play the content.

Current regulations set at 1 per thousand on the rate of gross operating revenues of the companies for determining the amount of the overall rate of operators.

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