Mobile subscribers looking for respite from unsolicited calls may have to wait for some more time as operators are facing technical difficulties in implementing system mandated by TRAI to check pesky calls. With telemarketers mandated to use ‘700’ series number, the originating operator now has to verify that the dialled number is not a part of the ‘Do Not Call Registry’ (filtering) and only after the verification is completed that the call can go through.
The system currently analyses only the dialled number and not originating number (from where the call is made).
“Operators have highlighted certain technical issues in implementing the ‘filtering’ requirements mandated by TRAI for originating operators,” GSM operators lobby COAI Director General Rajan S Mathew told
