Rejected petition Ban anonymous sms marketing

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There is a large number of companies now using SMS to market their services, usually causing a nuisance to the recipients. These texts are sent anonymously and the numbers are not normally traceable on the internet. This petition is intended to force the companies using this marketing method to identify themselves in the messages whether in the UK, another country or using an agency of another country.

Texts cannot be stopped by the Telephone Preference Service.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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Date submitted 6 August 2012
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