The government has disconnected 51,000 unregistered telephone numbers till July, 2012. These telephone numbers were being used to carry out telemarketing activities, say news reports.
In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Milind Deora, Minister of State, Communications and Information Technology, said that as per the data received by the government from service providers, majority of complaints of unsolicited commercial communications (UCC) were found to be against telecom subscribers who were not registered as telemarketers with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
The government has also sent notices to 88,300 subscribers for violation of the Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations, 2010. The act mandates that the subscribers which are not registered with TRAI as telemarketers cannot undertake any commercial communication.
