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No solution for web-generated pesky SMSes: Sibal
Thursday October 20, 2011 10:13:17 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
government currently has no mechanism to control unwanted
commercial calls and messages generated through the internet,
Communications Minister Kapil Sibal Thursday.
"People are very smart now (and) they are using internet to send
such messages. Now we don't have any control on the internet,"
Sibal said while addressing the Economic Editors Conference here.
"The internet is a difficult thing to regulate because the server
may be somewhere else outside the country. You may put your calls
or message through that server. How will we deal with that server
over which we have no jurisdiction," he asked.
The government had introduced a regulation last month which barred
unwanted commercial calls and messages from disturbing mobile
subscribers by levying huge penalties on the defaulters, including
fines ranging from Rs.25,000 to Rs.250,000.
To make the telemarketing firms identifiable, the regulation also
ensured that their their phone numbers begin with '140'.
However, after silence of a couple of weeks, the pesky messages
have again started nagging customers. According to reports, many
of these messages are generated online.
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