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Telcos deploy tech to block all pesky messages: COAITelecom operators in India have implemented technology to block pesky messages, effective December 11, 2024. This follows a mandate from th...
New TRAI rule to come into effect from October 1. Here's what it means for Jio, Airtel, and Vi usersTRAI has introduced a new rule requiring telecom companies to provide information about network availability on their websites. This helps ...
Spam calls and messages: How to activate DND on Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and VodafoneBlock spam calls by activating Do Not Disturb feature. Use codes to block specific call categories. Follow network-specific steps for Jio, ...
How to block irritating marketing spam calls, activate Do Not Disturb (DND) on Jio, Airtel, ViDespite several measures by Trai in the past few years, the problem of pesky telemarketing calls and messages has remained as it is. Howeve...
Trai gives enterprises 2 weeks to verify SMS sending templatesPEs or principal entities are the enterprises that send commercial messages to customers using SMS. In 2018, Trai mandated the use of a DLT...
Trai tightens norms around spam calls, messagesThe Indian Telecom Regulatory Authority (Trai) has issued new directions to combat increasing pesky calls and messages. Telcos will now hav...
Solving pesky calls, SMS issue tough: TelcosAccording to industry estimates, the number of such UTMs across India is easily over double the 250,000-odd authorised telemarketers regist...
Mobile users unlikely to get relief from pesky calls, text messages soon, say telco executivesSenior industry executives said a possible solution to the pesky calls problem is for either the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Tra...
Trai sets May 1 deadline for telcos to review detect system for barring pesky calls, unwanted SMSesThe Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has also called for further tightening of the registration exercise of principal entities ...
76 pc people see rise in pesky calls after interaction with WhatsApp biz accountsWhen contacted, a Meta spokesperson said that Whatsapp has built systems that make it faster for WhatsApp to suspend a business from sendin...
Pesky calls: Trai to launch a digital consent authorisation platform soonIn 2018, Trai had mandated telecom operators to deploy blockchain-based DLT systems to reduce spam calls and messages - or unsolicited comm...
Registration in 'do not disturb' list no deterrent to pesky calls, says surveyAccording to online platform Localcircles, 95 per cent people who participated in the survey said they get pesky calls and SMSes (Short Mes...
Airtel signs up IBM to block unwanted callsPlayers like Tech Mahindra, Microsoft and Tanla Solutions have lately claimed blockchain-based engagements with Indian telcos.
Pesky callers hide in small towns with Chinese gear to evade checksThe crackdown on pesky calls last month seems to have failed to make much impact as there is no let up in the flow of unsolicited calls & m...
Mobile users may get relief from pesky messages; TRAI meet todayMobile phone users may get some relief from pesky messages and unwanted value added services that have been activated without their consent
Relief from pesky messages: TRAI caps cheaper SMSes at 100 a dayThe regulator also said that telcos must charge a minimum of 50 paise for every message sent beyond the prescribed limit.
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal a victim of pesky messages too"Trai is taking it up (pesky calls/SMSes issue). I also face lot of problem. Every two minutes I get such SMS," Sibal told reporters.
- ET in the classroom: What Are Pesky SMSes?
Unsolicited telemarketing text messages that mobile phone users listed with telecom regulator Trai's NDNC registry continue to receive.
- TRAI imposes 5 paise termination charge on commercial SMSes
Termination charges are paid by an operator from whose network calls or SMS originate to the one on whose network these communications end.
- TRAI clears confusion over SMS limit, exempts certain services
Trai exempted various service providers from the new limit of one hundred SMSes per day per SIM, which was imposed to block pesky calls and...