TRAI could direct operators to derecognise iPhones over DND app

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India may ban iPhone within 6 months if Apple keeps fighting TRAI and not allow DND App in iOS Store

It's a fight that is going on for some time. Apple, the maker of the iPhone, and TRAI, the agency that regulates telecom networks in India, are in middle of a bitter fight over the matter of SPAM calls and messages. Now, with a new regulatory policy TRAI has hinted that if Apple doesn't step back and allows a TRAI app on the iPhone, it is possible that the agency may ask telecom companies like Airtel, Vodafone and Jio to delist and deregister the iPhone from their networks.

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so trai will inconvenience iphone users for their app which wants all sorts of identifying information?
 
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6pack said:
so trai will inconvenience iphone users for their app which wants all sorts of identifying information?
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The bigger question is that will Apple inconvenience users by not responding to TRAI. I use Google's spam detection which I think is better than selling your contacts to TrueCaller (Google already has my contacts) :p

I am no fan of the methods used, but I highly doubt Apple will be the vanguard of privacy - they will at one point sell out. But the isheep that people are they will hail it like some mega thing :p
 
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Well I have used it last month and reported all spams with it. Guess what I have wasted my precious time.
I kept receiving calls from my provider that the reporting was incomplete and partial.
And if I still want to report any spam further/future sms on particular no only rather using any app.

So for me its a failed app.
 
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nRiTeCh said:
I kept receiving calls from my provider that the reporting was incomplete and partial.
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Probably because they earn money from such sms senders. Why will they lose those bulk sms companies for a few complaints?
Even I have DND from years and still get unwanted spam messages every day. I bet the phone companies have a hand in allowing such sms messages for some premium amount.
 
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Useless.

DND never works. I get so many calls / SMS's per day. I remember when stopping spam and solicitation was being proposed, many said "the livelihood of millions is based on social engineering and calling". Such a convoluted way to think. Good Apple is showing the middle-finger to our stupid government. Or at least standing up, to the moronic pan-India projects which are rolled out. Causing more pain and waste of money, rather than completing a cause.

Dumb.
 
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asingh said:
Useless.

DND never works. I get so many calls / SMS's per day. I remember when stopping spam and solicitation was being proposed, many said "the livelihood of millions is based on social engineering and calling". Such a convoluted way to think. Good Apple is showing the middle-finger to our stupid government. Or at least standing up, to the moronic pan-India projects which are rolled out. Causing more pain and waste of money, rather than completing a cause.

Dumb.
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DND doesn't apply if you give number for let's say bigbazaar shopping or reliance fresh or such. That will pass DND.
 
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