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ET had, in its March 9 edition, reported about the disruption caused to several online services because of the inability of telemarketers and others to register their sender IDs and context of texts on the blockchain platform of telcos.
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According to sources aware of the matter, the overall commercial SMS drop rate came down to 33% on Tuesday from 40% the day before.
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.
Several online services witnessed disruption on Monday as telemarketers and others were unable to register their sender IDs and context of texts on the blockchain platform of telcos.