We all shouted hurrah that day. Or at least, I did, when I saw a tweet from the Nigerian Communications Commission say that all our troubles were over – the Do-Not-Disturb code: STOP to 2442 would put an end to those pesky marketing messages from Nigerian telcos. What a nuisance, those messages. At a point they became so bad that people started to make jokes about knowing you’re single when the only good morning texts you receive are from your telco. Hell, someone even started a Change.org petition to try to get them to stop.
Things didn’t change though, until recently, when the Hon. Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu complained about receiving some of those “embarrassing” texts, himself. According to the THISDAY article I read…
“…such unsolicited messages are embarrassing because they are transmitted as bulk messages Article source: http://techcabal.com/2016/07/11/mtn-glo-airtel-etisalat-dnd/
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