Openwave Systems and a high-tech coalition are taking spam matters into their own hands, according to executives at an anti-spam workshop Tues. Openwave runs mobile data and broadband services for companies such as AT&T Wireless, BellSouth, China Unicom, Cingular, Cox, Nextel, Sprint, Telecom Italia, T-Mobile, Telefonica and Verizon. Openwave helped form the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) in Dec. 2003, and members of the group said Tues. they're seeking technology solutions and industry best practices to reduce spam, even as the federal govt. seeks to enforce last year’s CAN-SPAM Act.
Enhanced 911 took center stage Tues. at the first meeting of the Network Reliability & Interoperability Council (NRIC), chaired by Nextel CEO Timothy Donahue, the first wireless chief to head NRIC. “In this time of heightened national concern for public safety, it is only proper for us to focus a large portion of NRIC’s energy on the reliability and security of our nation’s emergency services communications networks,” FCC Chmn. Powell said.