A MAN is taking legal action against China Mobile and China Telecom in Shenzhen Intermediate People s Court after China Mobile blocked messages sent from his mobile phone.
The man, identified as Qin, said his China Telecom mobile number could not send text messages to users of China Mobile because China Mobile had blacklisted his number and blocked his messages. China Mobile said they had blocked the number because it suspected Qin was sending junk short messages in 2008.
When Qin found his messages to China Mobile users were blocked in 2008, he complained to China Telecom who told him his number had been blacklisted by China Mobile after they found he had sent 185 messages to their users in five minutes, advertising forged receipts, yesterday s Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported.
Qin said he had not sent the messages but China Mobile blocked his number Nov. 21, 2008, he said.
Qin filed a suit against the companies in a Futian court in 2009, seeking compensation for losses of 30,000 yuan (US$4,546).
I did not send those messages. A man could not send 185 messages with 51 words in five minutes. Criminals must have used my number to send the messages using computer software. The companies should have checked that first before blocking my number, he said.
The Futian court said telecom operators had a duty to take action against those sending junk short messages to protect users. Because China Mobile had removed Qin s number from the blacklist after receiving his complaint, the Futian court ruled that the telecom operator should not pay any compensation to Qin.
Qin, however, was not happy with the ruling and appealed to the intermediate people s court.
The court is yet to hand down its decision. (Wang Yuanyuan)
