May 17, 2012

Non Professional Response By Airtel To Pesky Call, Spam SMS Complaint’s

Pesky Calls

Despite registration with service providers for Do Not Disturb (DND) service, there was really no disturbance initially  for few days by unsolicited calls and Smses. But of late, it appears, unsolicited calls and Smses are back with vengeance. I have been receiving lot of pesky calls from telemarketer’s and spam Sms’s from real estate agents, [...]

Nokia – Reconnect With Indian Users, Fast. Opportunities Are Plenty!

Time to consolidate Indian market share.

As per Telecom Regulatory Authority of India – TRAI – there are 865 million mobile subscribers in India and out of which 206 million are active rural subscribers. India’s rural population is 700 million and which means approx. 500 million rural Indians are still outside the mobile network. These figures presents a massive challenge for the [...]

121 Million Internet Users In India By Year (2011) End – Numbers Growing!

Internet and Mobile Association of India

After China and United States, India has maximum number of internet users – 112 million by September, 2011 and another approx. 9 million more would be added by year end. This is the result of survey carried out by IMRB and the Internet and Mobile Association of India. The profile of users is evolving fast [...]

TRAI To Penalize Pesky Callers And Spam SMS Senders Using Individual Numbers

TRAI

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Friday said if pesky calls or messages are sent through individual numbers then notice will be served to the customers while the number will be disconnected on second violation. According to TRAI, 1122 subscribers have been issued notices while 111 subscribers have been disconnected. In case of telemarketers, [...]

2G Spectrum Scam – No Bail To Kanimozhi & Other Accused – Legal System Works In India!

2G Scam Convicts

All bail applications, including DMK leader Kanimozhi and seven others, in the 2G spectrum allocation scam have been dismissed on Thursday by the special CBI court. The court also announced that the trial will begin on November 11, 2011. Special Judge O.P. Saini dismissed the bail pleas, saying the charges leveled against them were of “very serious [...]

Limit Of SMS’s Raised From 100 To 200 Per Day By TRAI – Some Relief!?

There is a good news for the SMS lovers in India! Earlier TRAI had imposed a restriction of sending 100 text messages per day in lieu of ever increasing spam messages. However now, consumers will be able to send up-to 200 SMSes per day from a SIM, as against the earlier limit of 100 SMSes [...]

Research In Motion (RIM) Sued In USA And Canada Over Recent BlackBerry Outage

Consumers in the United States and Canada have sued Research In Motion (RIM) for service outages for days long  recently on BlackBerry devices that rippled across the world. The system wide failures of the services had left tens of millions of frustrated Blackberry users on five continents without email, instant messaging and browsing. RIM’s co [...]

Wake Up TRAI – Pesky Calls And Spam SMS’s Are Back Despite The Ban

Pesky Calls Are Back

Ban on unsolicited telephone calls and Sms’s, which came into effect on 27th September, 2011 is not being implemented with earnest by TRAI. After a lull of few days, telemarketers are back in their dirty tricks and have started calling or sending spam Sms’s. Take me for an example, I am receiving two to three [...]