TRAI Initiates Action Against Access Providers For Non-Implementation of the UCC SMS Complaint Lodging Module

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..... TRAI Initiates Action Against Access Providers For Non-Implementation of the UCC SMS Complaint Lodging Module
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Dated:- 7-12-2012

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..... nt of India Ministry of Communications & Information Technology 07-December-2012 16:13 IST The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had issued "The Telecom Commercial Communications Custome .....

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..... r Preference (Tenth Amendment) Regulations, 2012" on 5th November, 2012 prescribing further measures to tighten the framework for controlling the menace of unsolicited commercial communications (UCC). .....

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..... Under such regulations, TRAI has facilitated the easy lodging of UCC complaints through SMS mode by forwarding the UCC SMS to 1909 by appending the telephone number/ SMS header and date of receipt o .....

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..... f SMS. It has come to the notice of TRAI through several complaints that some of the Access Providers have not implemented the above revised procedure for lodging of UCC complaints through forwarding .....

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..... of SMS. Meanwhile, the compliance in this regard was sought from the Access Providers and it was found that all the Access Providers have implemented the same except M/s Idea Cellular Ltd. The Author .....

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..... ity has initiated action against such Access Provider. ***** MV/RK
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