To: The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate
Ban Mobile Text Advertising
Please put an end to unsolicited mobile text message advertising! As our response to telemarketers was the creation of a No-Call List, we ask that mass-recipient text message advertisements become an illegal business practice.
Why is this important?
Already bombarded with advertisement, pop-ups, pop-ins and spam around every corner, there's a new wave of ads targeted at mobile phone users. "Text Advertising" is a text message, often containing a link, promising free iPads, consumer discounts, or other trite deals you see on the sidelines of most every webpage. In the same vein as creating a No-Call list to prevent telemarketers from calling your home phone, we feel the use of texts for unsolicited advertisement should be considered an illegal business practice. Please join with me in raising this issue into public awareness and putting an end to this new form of mass advertising.