Following the rise of WhatsApp, Telegram, and Facebook Messenger, SMS is no longer widely used for texting. Nowadays, everyone has access to mobile internet, so subscribing to an SMS package makes little sense.

Nevertheless, we continue to receive an inordinate amount of SMS spam on our phones from telemarketers, telcos, ISPs, random pest control companies, and the list goes on. Nobody enjoys receiving unwanted texts, and having to block each and every one of them can be time-consuming.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has, however, finally brought us good news.