The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India(TRAI) has now set a limit of 100 SMS per day on concessional SMS'es. Claiming that this decision comes after lengthy discussions and will reduce the pesky messages that users receive from unregistered marketers.
After the limit of 100 messages exhausts, operators will be required to charge at least 50 paise per SMS from the user. It would be mandatory for the operators to implement the orders within 15 days.
Another step that, according to TRAI would help reduce the pesky messages requires operators to develop a software that would not allow a user to send more than 200 messages in an hour from a computer or any other system.
Lodging complaints for the violating unregistered marketers has been made easy. You can now forward the concerned message to 1909 after appending the telephone number of the advertiser and date of receipt.
TRAI has been regularly trying to put in force measures that would save the normal mobile user from these unwanted messages. With this order, TRAI said that an average mobile user sends 2 SMS'es per day and 47 per month.
I don't know on which study these numbers are based, but these are quite unrealistic. A person who has subscribed to concessional SMS packs would obviously send more messages than these.
Nevertheless, a limit of 100 messages per day, according to me, is not too low. What do you think? Will the limit affect your SMS use?
Do share with us in the comments.
After the limit of 100 messages exhausts, operators will be required to charge at least 50 paise per SMS from the user. It would be mandatory for the operators to implement the orders within 15 days.
Another step that, according to TRAI would help reduce the pesky messages requires operators to develop a software that would not allow a user to send more than 200 messages in an hour from a computer or any other system.
Lodging complaints for the violating unregistered marketers has been made easy. You can now forward the concerned message to 1909 after appending the telephone number of the advertiser and date of receipt.
TRAI has been regularly trying to put in force measures that would save the normal mobile user from these unwanted messages. With this order, TRAI said that an average mobile user sends 2 SMS'es per day and 47 per month.
I don't know on which study these numbers are based, but these are quite unrealistic. A person who has subscribed to concessional SMS packs would obviously send more messages than these.
Nevertheless, a limit of 100 messages per day, according to me, is not too low. What do you think? Will the limit affect your SMS use?
Do share with us in the comments.
