In November last year, Bharti Airtel had blocked access to NetCore’s SMS service MyToday. The reason cited was that it violates the National Do Not Call (NDNC) regulations set by TRAI.
The issue was resolved and the service was restored. However, now, Vodafone seems to have blocked access to MyToday’s SMS alerts for the same reasons.
Here’s Rajesh Jain’s post from November when the Airtel incident happened and here’s info about the latest.
What I’m wondering is — it might have been a little easier (my assumption) for Rajesh to probably resolve the issue, considering the fact that he’s an accomplished entrepreneur, well known speaker and probably has a great network of contacts.
What would have happend if a first-time-not-so-famous entrepreneur would have run into similar issues ? How easy / difficult would have it been for them to amicably resolve the misunderstanding ?
I’ll probably seek out Rajesh’s answer to how easy – difficult it was for him to get the Airtel issue sorted out. Based on constraints, I’m not sure what he could and couldnt reveal.
You know that India’s (Trai) National Do Not Call (NDNC) regulations and TRAI had rolled out NDNC to curb unsolicited commercial communications (UCC), including unsolicited SMSes and pesky calls, and had even set up a registry