Japan's Dominant Mobile Phone Carrier Wins Fight Against Spam E-mailers

In Japan's first court decision under its anti-spam legislation, Japan's dominant mobile phone carrier, NTT DoCoMo Corp., was awarded 6.57 million yen against a Tokyo company for flooding its wireless e-mail network with spam. Japan's recently enacted anti-spam legislation requires spam e-mail to be labeled in the subject heading as "unsolicited advertising". Spam e-mailers regularly send randomly addressed advertisements across wireless e-mail networks and account for over 80% of the 950 million messages sent to DoCoMo's mobile e-mail service each day. For more information, visit: http://www.cnn.com/2003/BUSINESS/asia/03/25/docomo.reut/ Summary by: Nick Wong