Even as all telemarketers were asked by the telecom regulator to register by August 31, only 8,000 telemarketers have registered as of October 1.
NEW DELHI: Even as all telemarketers were asked by the telecom regulator to register with the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) by August 31, only 8,000 telemarketers have registered as of October 1, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). There are a total of around 30,000 telemarketers in the country.
Registered telemarketers can only make calls or send SMSes to those phone users, who are not registered with the National Do Not Call (NDNC) registry, or those who don’t mind receiving unsolicited commercial communication. Technically speaking, unregistered telemarketers can continue to send unsolicited calls and SMSes, till official complaints are lodged against them.
However, Trai has said that all telemarketers were required to register themselves with the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) by August 31, “failing which the service providers can disconnect the resources of such telemarketers”.
Trai has added, “Those telemarketers who have not registered are not supposed to make any unsolicited commercial call to a subscriber registered on NDNC, otherwise they will be liable for action as per the regulation on receipt of any complaint.”
Meanwhile, more than 6.5 million mobile subscribers, out of a total wireless base of 201 million, have registered with the National Do Not Call (NDNC) Registry as of October 1, according to TRAI. End of July, the number of mobile subscribers registered with
the NDNC was 5.5 million. The NDNC Registry would be operational from October 12.
So, those subscribers who registered before August 31, would stop getting unwanted commercial calls and SMSes from October 12. And, those who registered with NDNC after August 31, will start getting the benefit of the new legislation within 45 days of the date of registration.
While more than 3 million subscribers of Bharti have registered with the do-not-call notregistry, around 1.6 million are from Vodafone Essar, 1.57 million from Bharat
Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), 0.82 million from Idea, and 0.20 million from the Reliance group, among others
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