Telesales not part of anti-spam laws
Hong Kong has just passed a new anti-spam bill, conspicuosly absent are the telesales, the ones that call your mobile phone no matter when you’re in Hong Kong or when you’re travelling and incurring long distance charges because "tens of thousands of sales agents jobs are at stake" and "400,000 people relied on phone contact to promote products".
This is rather convenient, so an incredible number of people actually WANT tele sales spam and there are tens of thousands of sales agents who phone you all the time? Last I heard cold calling telesales were done out of low cost tele marketing centers in China and Macau, so the only jobs at stake are the company owners who are peddling you products, and I rarely ever receive a call from Joe Chang’s restaurant, it’s usually PCCW has a new product, Hutchinson has a new service, Smartone wants you to switch to them….i.e. not exactly "poor" companies.
I find it really difficult to believe that there are 400,000 people in Hong Kong who really WANT to be phone spammed so they can be sold rubbish they didn’t ask for. Isn’t this the age of self determination and isn’t "new marketing" all about giving to the people what they want, when they want it? Mass Tele Sales is the oldest form of intrusive marketing and is at the same category as pop-ups and interstitials and excessive UCE (i.e. spam).