SPAM causing major issues with ISPs
This is according to Christopher Riley, CEO of The Notebook Company. Riley said that ISPs are having to filter and delete millions of spam messages every day which is putting pressure on their resources.
"ISPs are having to upgrade their file servers to cope with this deluge and some just won’t have the resources to fund the expense – which, in many instances, could run into millions of Rands.
"Spam is just burying companies’ systems – the sheer volume is bringing things to a potential standstill and ISPs are going to have to upgrade to fight this scourge. There is going to be increasing consolidation in the ISP market space, and one of the contributing factors will be spam intrusion and the cost factors it incurs – besides the general move to towards increasing consolidation."
Riley said spam is "without a doubt chewing up" bandwidth and retarding server speeds.
"In addition, mobile users who use technology such as 3G are paying higher connection fees and spam is having an impact on them as well – even though their ISP might try and block as much spam as possible."
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