1Department of Mass Communication, Achievers University, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria
2Department of Mass Communication, Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Osun State, Nigeria
Online published on 5 December, 2019.
This research was carried out to examine the attitude of undergraduate students to unsolicited SMS advertising by GSM operators, using the undergraduate students of Achievers University, Owo, Ondo State as the case study. Survey method of gathering data was adopted for this paperby distributing well-developed questionnaire to elicit responses from the respondents, the sample size of which was 120. The findings clearly showed that GSM operators’ unsolicited SMS advertisements generates unfavourable attitudes and they are mostly unbeneficial, unexciting, confusing, misleading, and irritating. In addition, they are neither of any informational values nor relevant because the messages were not permitted by the subscribers that receive them, which is why they delete them immediately after receiving them. Therefore, sending such unsolicited messages should be discontinued.
SMS, GSM, Message, Advertisement