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Why is it exactly, that mobile providers can’t catch this…? Just like with SMS fraud. It might cost them a few cents per subscriber to do effective anti-spam m
by nightsd01 1y ago
Why is it exactly, that mobile providers can’t catch this…?
Just like with SMS fraud. It might cost them a few cents per subscriber to do effective anti-spam measures, but now society has to pay the cost
- mdani 1y agoThe MVNOs such as MobileX mentioned above do not have their own towers or the cellular backbone i.e. the core network. They'll merely use the MNO such as Verizon or T-Mobile and have a commercial arrangement in which MVNO just handles the marketing and the customer support. So the MVNOs may not have the right tools or data or incentives to catch these sim farms.
- smoovb 1y agoWhy would the mobile provider want to catch it? If these guys are paying MobileX for 256 sims per bank * 64 sim banks = 16,384 sims and say $20 per plan = $327,680 per month of company income.
- panja 1y agoFCC fines
- VectorLock 1y agoCommon carriers are usually absolved of the malfeasance of their customers.
- justsomehnguy 1y ago> $20 per plan Nope. Cheaper, but still they do pay.
- nelox 1y agoMaybe they did and informed the authorities accordingly.
- rcarmo 1y agoIt depends on how closely they monitor the network and how much these people abused it. A steady, slow increase in calls/messages on a site wouldn’t show up in stats unless there was a lot of constant congestion, and even then most telcos these days outsource a lot of their network monitoring and capacity management to contractors that just don’t care. Plus if they’re using legacy 2G/3G, it’s not the shiny thing that most telco network quality crews care about for customer experience…