Finally, even Telecom companies get to be a part of the wrong side of the SMS spam. In the latest addition of clauses to regulations, the TRAI has ensured that even the Telecom companies and marketers are under the scanner for SMS spam.
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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has imposed new SMS termination charges for retail consumers and commercial messages. Termination charge is paid by the operator where the SMS originates to the operator to which the message is delivered. TRAI did not set a particular charge for this hence some operators were charging 10 paise as termination charges. Now they have set the SMS termination charge as 2 paise for normal SMS and 5 paise on transactional SMS on operators from whom the SMS originates. Continue reading “TRAI issues new regulations for SMS termination charges to curb spam SMS”
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued direction to service providers regarding provision of ISD facility to prepaid subscribers to curb international missed calls, calls from international numbers on winning of prizes or lottery and inform customers through SMS at periodic intervals not to respond to missed calls from unknown international numbers. Continue reading “TRAI issues guidelines to service providers to prevent missed calls from International numbers”
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has exempted the daily SMS limit of 200 for machine to machine and person to machine messages. TRAI restricted mobile users from sending more than 100 SMS / day per SIM starting 27th September 2011, to prevent pesky marketing SMS. Later they increased the limit from 100 to 200 SMS / day per SIM. Continue reading “TRAI exempts 200 SMS per day limit for SMS sent to, generated by machines”
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has announced that all Telecom service providers should publish their Tariff Plan details regularly to let the customers know about the changes. They should also publish the tariff details in at least one Newspaper of regional language and one English newspaper at an interval not more than 6 months. Continue reading “TRAI asks operators to publish tariff plans regularly”
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) restricted the mobile users from sending more than 100 SMS / day per SIM starting 27th September 2011, to prevent pesky marketing SMS. Now TRAI has increased the limit from 100 to 200 SMS / day per SIM after they received representations from some of the service providers and consumers to increase the limit of 100 SMS per day per SIM. Continue reading “TRAI increases daily SMS limit from 100 to 200”
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has imposed the restriction of 100 SMS/ day per SIM from today (27.09.2011) to prevent pesky marketing SMS. Now they have excluded the service providers, DTH operators, e-ticketing agencies, social networking sites and directory service agencies from the limit. This would let these providers to serve the people without any problem. Continue reading “TRAI 100 SMS per day limit comes into effect”
TRAI the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has released the subscriber figures at the end of October 2010. One of the interesting facts is that the Wireless Subscriber base has reached 706.69 Million. Bharti Airtel added the most subscribers in the period followed by Vodafone and Uninor.
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ET is reporting that the Operators in India have been fined over 42 crores so far for flouting Subscriber Verification norms when issuing new SIM Cards. This is basically to discourage operators from issuing new connections based on Fake Identity.
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With an exponential increase in the Mobile subscribers rate, we might be soon having 11 digits Phone Numbers. Government of India is reportedly now considering to change the numbering scheme from the current 10 digits to 11 digits with an addition of digit “9” to the numbers in order to accomodate more users.
TRAI, the telecom regulator of India, has recorded an increase of 16.67 million during october 2009 itself taking the total number of subscribers to 488 million subscribers. Hence DoT (Department of Telecommunication) has supposedly issued a note to all the telecom operators to start making necessary arrangements for the migration from Jan 1, 2010. Continue reading “11 Digits Phone Numbers to be soon a reality?”
You must have heard a lot of news surrounding MNP or Mobile Number Portability. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has finally fixed the various charges for Mobile Number Portability in India and the TRAI press release is below. If you are still wondering what does MNP mean to you read further. Continue reading “TRAI fixes MNP Mobile Number Portability charges at Rs.19”
After the immense success of Tata Docomo’s per second pulse plan which made it the top operator in terms of user additions, TRAI is now considering the idea of introducing the same throughout all the operators now.
According to TRAI, all the telecom operators may be soon forced to give the option of paying based on the usage per second pulse instead of the current per minute pulse.
JS Sarma, Chairman of TRAI said that they will soon come out with a paper on this subject and invite suggestions on making this plan mandatory or not.
TRAI is also reconsidering the clause in current regulations which allow the mobile phone operators decide the tariffs and plans.
Some of the major Mobile Operators like BSNL and Aircel have already started offering per second pulse in select states like Karnataka, AP, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal etc and other operators like Airtel, Vodafone and Idea are expected to follow suit soon.
What do you think? Would you prefer to pay by the new per second pulse or are you happy with your existent per minute pulse rates? Do Pass on your comments.
For users awaiting for Mobile Number Portability(MNP) to be implemented, it’s yet again a bad news. Telecom operators want users to bear the entire cost of number portability. It was expected that it would cost somewhere around Rs. 400-500 for porting the number from one mobile operator to the other. But the amount that you might need to pay might shock you.
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The Department of Telecommunications has ordered special financial audits for four major cellcos of India to check the accuracy in reports of these leading telecom companies. The four companies that are under the scanner of DoT are:
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TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) today announced the revised interconnection usage charges (IUC) for domestic calls and slightly increased them for incoming international calls. To be more specific, the domestic IUC has been reduced to about 33% approximately and IUC for international calls has been increased to 40 paise instead of 30 paise presently.
Also, according to reports, it has been made clear that the reduction in domestic IUC would be affective for all types of calls such as Fixed to fixed, mobile to fixed, and fixed to mobile. And the above changes would be made effective 1st of April onwards.
For those who don’t know what exactly is Interconnection usage charges, it is the charge levied by the telecom company to whom a call is being terminated to. For example a call is being made by a Vodafone customer to Airtel customer, then Vodafone will have to pay some amount of IUC (as fixed by TRAI) to Airtel .
In the previous years, as and when there were changes in the IUC, the call tariff by the mobile phone operators also affected accordingly. According to TRAI, even this time, it expects this initiative to reduce domestic call charges in India as domestic IUC has been reduced to about 33 percent. Hope this step by Indian Telecom watch dog (TRAI) will bring down domestic call tariffs (specially in mobile phones).
