SA’s Wireless Application Service Providers' Association elects new office bearers for 2021, including chairman Anthony Ekerold, and its first female vice-chairman.
The Wireless Application Service Providers’ Association stresses the need for strict regulations to protect consumers amid heightened mobile fraud.
WASPA advises SA’s mobile users to exercise caution and their own common sense when receiving messages on their mobiles related to the virus.
Cheaper data and higher incomes will be the catalysts to lift the app development market in 2020, says WASPA.
In 2020, deepfakes will be an addition to cyber criminals’ arsenal to be used to extort money.
The cloud-based application enables contact centres to offer clients live two-way conversations via SMS, Facebook Messenger, Twitter and e-mail.
The Wireless Application Service Providers Association issued 39 fines for SMS spam last year, which included a R300?000 fine.
The new position filled by Ilonka Badenhorst will help strengthen its self-regulating role, says the association.
Despite the fact there are laws against it, spam remains a thorn in our flesh.
The association wants to accomplish more to benefit consumers and boost its processes.
The operator enters into agreements with wireless application service providers over the thorny issue of bulk SMSes.
The appointment of information officers to comply with privacy legislation needs debate.