74 per cent people registered in TRAI’s DND list still getting unwanted SMSes on a daily basis, says report

According to a report by LocalCircles, around 74 per cent of the people registered in the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) Do Not Disturb (DND) list still get unwanted SMS on a daily basis.

Further, it added that 26 per cent of citizens said at least a quarter of the unwanted SMS comes from mobile service providers; while banking, insurance, real estate, local services and earning money offers were the primary drivers for spam SMS.

The survey collected over 35,000 responses from citizens located in 324 districts of the country and follows recent measures proposed by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for stricter penalty norms on pesky callers.

The ‘Do Not Disturb’ list is meant for protecting subscribers from pesky communications.