After OTP and SMS services disruption, Trai asks telcos to switch off new filter for 7 days

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Tuesday suspended the implementation of its regulation to control pesky messages for a week, a day after a host of services and transactions such as net banking, online railway ticket bookings, ecommerce sales and Aadhaar authentication were disrupted as SMSes and OTPs failed to arrive.

“It has been observed that some of the principal entities have not fulfilled the requirements as envisaged in Telecom Commercial Communications