Artificial Inflation of Traffic Blamed for Dismal SMS Forecasts
Mobile operators ramp up prices for terminating SMS whilst crooks use bots to generate meaningless traffic.
Mobile operators ramp up prices for terminating SMS whilst crooks use bots to generate meaningless traffic.
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