TRAI’s report on the telecom industry’s fiscal second quarter performance also indicated that monthly average revenue per user (ARPU) from wireless services rose 9.60% on-quarter to Rs 172.57.
Mobile phone operators had told Trai that messages containing OTPs and other critical activities may not be delivered as telemarketers (TM) and principal entities (PEs) such as banks and other financial institutions were yet to implement the technical solution.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has disconnected 2.75 lakh telephone numbers and blocked services to 50 entities in a crackdown on spam calls and unregistered telemarketers.
“In view of this, a need is felt to review and put in place provisions, including regulating tariff for SMS and Voice calls beyond a certain limit, to curb UCC (unsolicited commercial communication) from UTMs using 10-digit numbers (p2p).”
