Lisa Minter (lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com) Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:12:45 -0500

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Hong Kong plans to enact an anti-spam law next year to crack down on companies that send unsolicited e-mails or make automated telemarketing calls to consumers, an official has said. The government has consulted with industry groups to craft a law that would combat junk faxes, e-mails, text messages and telemarketing calls. Au Man-ho, director-general of the Telecommunications Authority, said in a statement Saturday that direct marketing companies using automated calling on an unsolicited basis "can be considered a spam problem." However, Au said the law -- to take effect at an unspecified date in 2006 -- would not cover "manually made cold calls" to avoid interfering with normal business activities. He said the issue still requires public discussion and that the government was working with fixed-line and mobile operators to create a code of practice for telemarketing. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily.

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