Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notices to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and the central government on a petition challenging the regulator's imposition of a cap of 200 SMSes per day per person.
A division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw has given two weeks to the government and the TRAI to respond to the petition filed by Anil Kumar, secretary of an NGO Telecom Watchdog, who sought quashing of the TRAI's order restricting the number of SMSes per day with effect from Sep 27, 2011.
Trai ends cap of 200 personal text messages: A Delhi High Court sets aside the cap of 200 text messages per day for personal communication, but upholds curb for unsolicited commercial text messages.
In November, TRAI raised the cap from 100 text messages to 200 a day after it received representations from consumers and service providers to relax the limit. Trai had introduced the 100-SMSes a day cap to stop unsolicited and pesky text messages from telemarketers selling everything from real estate to weight loss solutions. The cap also put an end to subscribers using multiple SIM cards to send text messages without registering as telemarketers.
Even i have virtually stopped using the regular messaging. Its either Whatsapp, or the online message sending tools. I m currently using Free SMS Sender. So it doesnt bother me as well!
People are so familiar to BBM , what's app and other internet based messaging that sms would hardly be used by anyone.Still good that limit is removed. Will be usefull incase required.
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