Trai mulls regulating SMS, voice tariffs beyond certain limit to curb spam

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Wednesday said there is a need to review and put in place provisions, including regulating tariff for SMS and voice calls beyond a certain limit, to curb unsolicited commercial communication (UCC) from unregistered telemarketers (UTMs) using 10-digit numbers.

The same assumes significance in light of the increase in complaints against unregistered telemarketers sending spam calls and messages through 10-digit phone numbers. Trai noted that there is a possibility that UTMs may be using unlimited voice call package tariff offers of the service providers to push a large number of promotional voice calls to consumers using multiple connections.