No more pesky calls, SMSs from Tuesday
September 26th, 2011 - 8:49 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Sep 26 (IANS) Millions of mobile subscribers across the country are likely to get relief from pesky commercial calls and messages with the regulations preventing such communications coming into effect Tuesday.
To avail the service, the customers will have to get themselves registered with the National Customer Preference Registry, earlier known as “National Do Not Call Registry”. The regulations include fines ranging from Rs.25,000 to Rs.250,000 for the defaulting companies.
According to reports, while the number of pesky calls has come down lately, the messages still remained a menace. On an average, as many as 47,454 complaints per month are being registered in this regard.
Communications Minister Kapil Sibal will Tuesday announce the implementation of the regulations — The Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulation — thus laying down strict penalties for violators.
Although over 130 million mobile subscribers had registered with the National Do Not Call registry till Aug 25, consumers are still pestered with unwanted commercial calls and messages.
The telecom watchdog had announced a set of new measures last year to curb such unsolicited commercial communications which were to be implemented from Jan 1, but it kept repeatedly postponing the implementation sate.
The department of telecom (DoT) has provided ‘140′ number series to be allocated to telemarketers for a fixed line network. Access providers have to make relevant provisions in their network before allocation of resources to telemarketers using ‘140′ numbering series from fixed line network.
Unlike the previous regulation that asked customers to register their numbers in “Do Not Call” list, the new regulations allows customers to choose from different categories like “Fully blocked” or “Partially blocked”.
TRAI has disconnected over 72,000 telephone connections of registered telemarketers and over 118,000 of unregistered telemarketing companies for breaching guidelines related to commercial calls and messages up to May 2011.
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- TRAI disconnects connections of telemarketing companies for pesky calls - Aug 10, 2011
- Pesky calls to nag for some more time - Feb 28, 2011
- TRAI to disconnect individual numbers making pesky calls, messages - Nov 04, 2011
- Pesky calls to nag customers for one more month - Jan 31, 2011
- TRAI imposes 5 paise deterrant for pesky messages - Oct 25, 2011
- Pesky SMSs again - via new routes - Nov 06, 2011
- TRAI to start registration of telemarketers from Jan 15 - Jan 14, 2011
- Pesky calls to nag customers for one more month - Dec 28, 2010
- Complaints against pesky calls decline - Nov 25, 2011
- Schools, colleges not barred from sending bulk messages - Mar 08, 2011
- No solution for web-generated pesky SMSes: Sibal - Oct 20, 2011
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