Sending of unsolicited messages to mobile phones must be stopped
Short messaging service (SMS) is one of the medium of communication being used commonly nowadays by hand phone users. However SMS can also be used to commit crime and fraud by various parties. Mobile phones are now being blasted with so many unwanted or unsolicited short messages. Unsolicited messages include advertisement-linked messages, contest winning messages, pornographic messages and so on.
Scratch-and-win scams: blame everybody else!
While this is true to a fair extent, what bothers consumers is, why is such an illegal activity continuing to flourish in all parts of the country, in the small towns even?
Right move to use the ringgit in international business
The decision makes good economic sense. Had the decision been made earlier it could have saved local business millions of ringgit.
Restrictive trade practices in a free market
So what if the industries are dominated by a few players? What is wrong with that?
When there is less competition, the players in the market will be able to dominate it and fix high prices for their goods and services. It works to the company's advantage that there is no or very little competition. Where there is competition the companies may act to get rid of rivals. They may work among themselves to fix prices or divide the market among themselves to keep out competitors.
Unfair trade practices should be made illegal
Often sellers of goods or services use unfair methods to get consumers to buy their goods or sign up for their services.
Consumers have at one time or another been put under pressure by the sales person to buy a product or sign a contract of service. Consumers too have been misled about the price or quality of the product or services purchased.
