SMSes limited to 100 a day

As per the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) guidelines, SMSes restricted to 100 per day from per SIM and 101th text message will stay put in the outbox of the cell phone. According to the guidelines, pre-paid mobile customer can send 100 SMSes per SIM in a day, while it is 3000 SMEes per month for postpaid.

The TRAI, which is planning to end the menace of unsolicited commercial calls and SMSes from 27 of this month, said that it has the right to relax this norm during special day when mobile phone customers may be allowed to send more than 100 SMEes per day like festival days.

Cellphone service providers have already started informing their customers about the new restriction and most of the companies have announced to implement this from September 20 itself. The restriction is likely to hit the telecom companies, as their revenue from SMSes will be erode.