After a long deliberation, PTA has announced promulgation of new regulation, “Protection from Spam, Unsolicited, Fraudulent and Obnoxious Communication Regulations, 2009”, to protect the consumer interests as mandated under the Pakistan Telecommunication (Re-organization) Act 1996. This regulation also include a “Do Not Call” registry. Mobile companies have been asked to inform their customers abou this.
The objective of these regulations is to protect telecom consumers from spam, fraudulent, unsolicited and obnoxious communications including calls and SMS. It remains to be seen if this regulation will benefit consumers or will it become one of those laws which remain on paper. Click below to read details in Urdu.
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