The Delhi High Court has 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 SMSs per day per person.
A division bench of acting chief justice A.K. Sikri and justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw has granted two weeks to the government and TRAI to respond to the petition filed by Anil Kumar, secretary of the Telecom Watchdog NGO, who requested that TRAI?s order restricting the number of SMSs per day, be cancelled.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the petitioner, alleged that the SMS cap has been imposed in a non-transparent manner without prior consultation with the stakeholders.
According to the petition, “The checks and measures already in place under the Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations, 2010, were adequate to curb unsolicited commercial communications.”
The case will be heard next on January 18, 2012.
