While the spread of text messaging as an informational medium has been
encouraging, and will need to be carefully nurtured in the face of rampant
misuse of the medium by commercial entities and the inevitable backlash this
regulatory order represents, the intent of the order should not be seen as
primarily anti-civil society. Of course, in India, more than ever, the
possibility of it being misused by regulators is very real, but the order does
envisage certain types of services being exempted from its limiting clauses
(100/day).
Perhaps a representation is in order, to ensure that a regime of recognition of
community based messaging services is freed from the clampdown intended to
throttle commercial abuse.
Vickram
http://communicall.wordpress.com
http://vvcrishna.wordpress.com
>________________________________
>From: Ram Bhat <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Monday, 10 October 2011, 10:57
>Subject: [cr-india] TRAI guidelines on SMS
>
>
>Dear All,
>
>
>As you might know, the recent guidelines by TRAI
>limit the number of SMSs one can send per day (amongst other things)
>This will surely affect community radio stations and indeed, civil society
>initiatives in general,
>who have slowly begun to get warmed up to the exciting possibilities mobile
>telephony offer in terms of convergence.
>You can read about it here: http://maraa.in/medium-is-the-message/
>Comments and feedback welcome.
>
>
>best,
>Ram
>
>
>
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