A new SMS banking scam is targeting users in Spain, tricking them into revealing personal details and losing money. Here’s ...

Telecom companies in India, such as Jio, Airtel, Vi, and BSNL, have started using new labels in their SMS messages to help ...

Telecom operators have implemented a new suffix system to help users distinguish between genuine and spam SMS. This measure, ...

Google Messages is finally making its “view details” screen useful by showing what you actually replied to instead of vague ...

However, most sensitive apps, especially financial ones, still rely on the traditional method of using a password along with two-factor authentication. In most cases, this involves receiving SMS codes ...

Both SMS and MMS are sent using cellular networks and thus require a wireless plan and a wireless carrier. If you send a traditional “text” message on your phone, it’s considered an SMS.

Telecom operators roll out suffixes (P, S, T, G) to identify spam SMS. Improved transparency and consumer protection.

Although SMS remains the only way to be sure of reaching anyone with a mobile number, in any country, very few apps currently support it. That’s partly due to the age of the protocol, and partly ...