Icstis Goes After Content Providers, Not Intermediaries
By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 30 Jun 2006 07:07 AM PST
UK regulator Icstis has given itself the power to “take direct action against companies that provide mobile phone content”...previously it could “only take action against intermediary firms - companies that connect content producers to mobile networks”. The intermediary firms complained, of course, arguing that they weren’t able to police the content which goes through their networks to ensure that it conforms to the regulations.
“We have two million messages a day passing through our system in real time, we are like an internet service provider, we can’t technically check the content of all those,” said Sally Weatherall, head of WIN’s legal department.