Telecom operators including Aircel, Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices, have been asked by the Telecom Regulatory Authority Of India (TRAI) to submit a weekly report on disconnected numbers to be put up on a website as a measure to stop illegal telemarketing companies from getting a phone connection, reports The Hindu Business Line. It is not clear why only these three operators have been asked to submit a weekly report. Speaking to the publication, TRAI said that from June 30, 2013, they plan to blacklist these telemarketing companies so that they don't get any mobile connections for the next two years. This new mandate follows TRAI decision to hike the SMS termination charges in May 2013 to 2 paise per SMS for normal SMS and 5 paise per SMS on each transactional SMS on operators from whom the SMS originates, to curb the pesky SMS spam, which continue to be a major problem even after the imposition of the SMS Spam Guidelines. Telecom service providers (TSP) had then noted that smaller operators are selling bulk SMS to telemarketers at cheap rates and that the revenues earned by them are primarily based on the large number of transactional and promotional SMS to subscribers of other networks without having to pay to terminating TSPs. Following the new regulations, operators will be able to earn from smaller operators for normal, promotional and transactional SMS providing a balance. TRAI had earlier informed that customers can complain against these marketers by sending an SMS stating - "the unsolicited commercial communication, marketer's mobile number dd/mm/yy” to…
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