Help: Relief from pesky calls by mid-August

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The mobile users can expect to get relief from annoying calls and SMSs from mid-August. Telecom Tiger has learnt that telecom regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has written to DoT to complete all the formalities regarding this within a week.

In May Telecom companies had informed telecom regulator TRAI that they will be able to implement rules to curb pesky calls within six weeks of DoT allocating landline number series to tele-marketing companies.

In December 2010 , TRAI had come with recommendations, '''The Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations, 2010'' to curb menace of pesky calls and SMS.

It has recommended a fine of up to Rs 2,50,000 on tele-marketing companies for making unsolicited calls or sending such SMSes to a consumer registered in national customer preference register -- a modified version of TRAI''s do-not-call registry list.

However, the recommendations have not been implemented so far as the Department of Telecom (DoT) is yet to resolve some technical and security issues involved in the allocation of identifiable number series as recommended by TRAI.

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