Source: CCTV News
When it comes to harassing phone calls, many people are not strangers, selling insurance, real estate, various trainings, etc., which makes people defenseless. Just recently, many mobile phone users have received the same text message, and the content of the text message is directed at the harassing phone.
The three major operators will deal with harassing calls according to law
Recently, many users have received the same short message from the three major operators, and in this security reminder text message, the operator calls on users to resist harassing calls.
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China Unicom said it would deal with such situations from the source, increase restrictions on access to illegal phone numbers, and control the delivery addresses of mobile phone cards sold online.
China Mobile responded that after receiving user reports, they can deal with it from the two directions of "curing the symptoms" and "curing the root causes", blocking the harassing calls received by users and shutting down the illegal calls.
The relevant person in charge of China Telecom said that an abnormal traffic prevention system has been established to identify and automatically handle abnormal calls, including "calling you dead", "ultra-short harassment" and "malicious group calls".
Although many users have received notification text messages, many people are not yet clear about how to use and achieve results.
For example, China Mobile users need to dial 10086 or send sms "ktfsr" to 10086 to open high-frequency harassing phone blocking services. (At present, the business is only opened on a pilot basis in 11 provinces and cities such as Guangdong, Jiangsu, Beijing and Shanghai)
Governance is far from over Operators are using technical means to block harassing calls
In July 2018, the thirteen departments jointly issued the "Special Action Plan for Comprehensive Rectification of Harassing Telephone Calls", according to the requirements, from July 2018 to the end of December 2019, it is necessary to comprehensively use legal, administrative, economic and technical means to focus on the rectification of commercial marketing, malicious harassment and illegal and criminal harassment calls.
In November 2018, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Work Plan on Promoting the Special Action of Comprehensively Rectifying Harassing Telephone Calls", which requires that by the end of March 2019, all basic telecommunications enterprises should improve relevant technical means and have the ability to provide domestic mobile phone users with the ability to mark the number of suspected harassing telephone calls and risk prevention and control warnings through SMS and other services.
Now, the time has been carried out until May 2019, and many mobile phone users have received new feature reminders: for example, China Mobile launched the "number segment interception" function, selectively intercepting a series of numbers.
Some consumers said that since this year, there have indeed been fewer harassing calls than before, and they feel as if they have seen some effects now.
Three major operators will block harassing calls "on the way"
In fact, before the three major operators took the shot, mobile phone users have begun to choose some "interception software". According to a "Mobile Phone Security Report for the First Quarter of 2019", in the first quarter of this year, taking Tencent Mobile Butler as an example, users reported a total of 75.2837 million harassing calls, an increase of 25.59% over the same period last year; the average number of users marked harassing calls per day was 836,500, with the most marks in March, a total of 31.2308 million.
What is the difference between the actions taken by the three major operators and the "interception numbers" developed by some Internet companies?
Jiang Qiping, secretary general of the Informatization Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: It can be understood as: one is in the terminal, one is in the pipeline. Using the app to intercept, it is equivalent to the express delivery has been sent to the door, for inspection, if the operator shoots, it is on the way of the express, it will be intercepted.
Intercepting software is a business opportunity found by developers, but the starting point of the three major operators is not simply profit, in addition to more complex technical means, front-end, but also involves management.
Jiang Qiping, secretary general of the Information Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: For example, in the original sections 170 and 171, the operator authorized it to the virtual operator, and the virtual operator used it to act arbitrarily, and now it can be clearly requested, such as not sublease, sublease, and not allowed to use it for people of unknown origin.
Editor: Zeng Xiaowei