The
Government has disconnected over 51,000 telephone numbers of such
subscribers who had not registered as a telemarketer but were doing
telemarketing activities. Notices have been seved on nearly 88,300
subscribers who have carried out similar violations.
Government is aware that several calls and SMSs are being sent by
subscribers, without getting themselves registered with TRAI as a
telemarketer, by using normal telephone connections having numbers,
other than the ‘140’ number series allotted to registered telemarketers.
From the complaints’ data received from Service Providers, it is seen
that the majority of complaints of Unsolicited Commercial Communications
are sent by telecom subscribers who were not registered as a
telemarketer.
As per ‘The Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference
Regulations, 2010’, no subscriber, who is not registered with the TRAI
as a telemarketer under these regulations, shall make any commercial
communication. In case it is found, based on verification of a
complaint, that the UCC was originated by a subscriber who is not
registered with TRAI as a telemarketer, the Originating Access Provider
shall issue a notice to such subscriber to forthwith discontinue the
sending of such unsolicited commercial communications and if such
subscriber sends a commercial communication to any subscriber on a
second occasion, disconnect the telecom resources of such subscriber.
Based on above provisions of the regulations, the following action has
been taken against the violators (till 30th July, 2012) :-
i. 88307 notices have been sent to subscribers who have not registered
as a telemarketer but were doing the telemarketing activities.
ii. 51181 telephone numbers of such subscribers have been disconnected.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Communications
& Information Technology Shri Milind Deora in a written reply in the
Rajya Sabha today.
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