"If during the data analytics carried out by DoT, it is found that an individual subscriber is having more than nine mobile connections (si...

This means operators will have a free hand in fixing charges for such bulk SMSes by non-commercial users, and Trai's practice of forbearanc...

It added that it had decided to incentivize service providers by implementing a graded financial disincentive frame work.

"We gave banks about 2-3 weeks to come reply back to us. Many of the banks assured us that they will check this," Trai Chairman said.

Unauthorised telemarketing has increased over last one year and on an average 46,402 complaints are received per month.

From beating the heat at a nearby water park or a resort in the Himalayas to the latest real estate development in town, pesky messages hav...

The government has disconnected around 1.37 lakh telecom connections for sending pesky SMS and calls through them, Parliament was informed ...

The telecom regulator on Tuesday asked operators to suggest ways to deal with the "gigantic problem" within a fortnight.

Govt has issued close to 45K notices to unregistered telemarketers & disconnected nearly 28K telephones till April 24 for sending pesky cal...

It was observed that generally such SMSs originated from locations within Germany, Sweden, Fiji, Bosnia, UK, Jersey, Namibia, Panama, etc, ...

Unsolicited pesky calls and SMSs are down, but not out, despite the telecom ministry and regulator Trai’s efforts to free mobile subscriber...

Barely three weeks into freedom from unsolicited commercial text messages, mobile phone users are again beginning to receive texts advertis...

There is something more feverish than the pace with which telemarketing agents are crowding cellphones with promotional material every morn...

India’s 700 million strong mobile phone subscribers will have to wait for relief from the from pesky telemarketers and unwanted commercial ...

The Department of Telecom (DoT) and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) are headed for a turf war over who will regulate pesky...

Sanjay Kapoor, CEO, Bharti Airtel told ToI that the company expunged its bulk SMS business from its business portfolio at the end of July.

Unhappy subscribers are free to approach either DoT or the police under the Indian Telegraph Act on receiving pesky calls. Mobile marketers...