MTS growth recorded in October incoming SMS-spam

OJSC "Mobile TeleSystems" (MTS operator) reports fixed in October, 60% increase in the volume of incoming SMS-mailing advertising networks of other operators of the Russian Federation. On the basis of subscribers of MTS is actively pursuing a deeper filter incoming SMS-traffic for unauthorized advertising messages and fraud. Since the beginning of this year, thanks to a comprehensive anti-fraud measures and implementation of the automated system, "spam", MTS, more than 20-fold reduced the amount of fraudulent SMS-mailing of spam and within its own network and is currently 98% SMS and fraudulent nature of spam coming to MTS from SMS-centers of other operators of the Russian Federation. in May 2013 in addition to the system of "spam" MTS has introduced services and SMS Pro "Black List", which allow users to block incoming SMS c digital, short numbers and letters. MTS subscribers can also send spam complaints and fraud to the short number 1911. The launch of these services has allowed this year, more than a tenfold increase the number of blocked spam-SMS to short numbers and letters in May was blocked by about 30 million of these posts, in June - 37 million in September - more than 40 million. In October, as a result of the incoming traffic, the number of blocked SMS with signs of spam and fraud has increased to 62 million. As the director of information security MTS Sergei great-grandfather, the entire third quarter of this year, the volume of incoming advertising and information a2p traffic MTS short and alphanumeric character was at a stable level, accounting for an average of two billion SMS per month, of which about 1.5 billion SMS accounted for newsletters from banks, the remaining 500 million - for advertising and informational messages. In October, total advertising and data traffic from other networks suddenly rose to 2.4 billion, indicating the activation of unscrupulous distributors of advertising. An estimated Monitoring Centre MTS increase advertising messages for the month was about 300 million, which forced the company to increase traffic filtering.