New bill to outlaw spam sms's and other business practices

øCompanies are seeing e-mail usage grow at exponential rates. While the rise in e-mail use can improve employee productivity, it also presents challenges to IT staff, many of whom are struggling to keep pace with the rapid increases as related management, security && and storage tasks increase. Some are looking at e-mail outsourcing options as possible solutions.
E-mail use has been increasing by a variety of metrics. First, the number of employees using these systems is swelling. Industry analysts say that there are more than a billion e-mail users today, a number that gets larger every day.

BUSINESS owners will be prohibited by law from sending spam email or SMSs without the explicit permission of clients and customers, if the provisions of the new Consumer Protection Bill are put into place.

The ban on spam SMSs and email is is just one of a number of marketing practices that the new Consumer Protection Bill, which aims to protect consumer rights, aims to clamp down on.» Business Owner - Nabelah Adams - 01-08-2006