Comply with telemarketing rules in 3 days or face suspension: Trai to entities
Latest order comes a few days after Trai suspended newly-implemented telemarketing norms for sending commercial text messages for one week as its earlier order led to disruption in SMS and OTP deliveries in various services
BusinessToday.In | March 13, 2021 | Updated 14:03 IST
As per TRAI regulations, the PEs are required to register with telcos to assert their identity
Telecom regulator Trai (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) has said entities such as banking, logistics and e-commerce that send bulk messages to customers must complete their registration process in three days, failing which they ll be barred from doing so.
OTP delays should end as TRAI suspends its blockchain experiment for seven days
Prabhjote GillMar 9, 2021, 17:02 IST
Users in India are not receiving one-time-passwords as telecom operators implement new blockchain techology to block out spam messagesUnsplash
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has suspended its blockchain technology aimed at filtering out
spam messages for the next seven days.
This comes after users across the country saw long delays in receiving their one-time-passwords (OTPs) for online transactions.
Since the upgrade was implemented yesterday, users report not receiving OTPs from legitimate sources like their banks, digital payments apps and even government entities like Aadhaar authentication.One-time-passwords (OTPs) aren’t just for financial transactions. They are central for logging into email accounts, authenticating new memberships, or just signing into Amazon on a new device.
Telcos to filter unregistered businesses, SMS templates to control spam messages: Report
Entities with unique header IDs on the telcos’ distributor ledger technology platform have time till January 31 to submit templates of all possible content they wish to send customers January 21, 2021 / 04:04 PM IST
Telecom companies will start filtering commercial SMSes with unregistered content from January 31, 2021 in a bid to check flow of spam messages.
Thus, entities with unique header IDs (e.g. AX-TITAN) on the telcos’ distributor ledger technology (DLT) platform have time till January 31 to submit templates of all possible content they wish to send customers, The Economic Times reported.
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