Nothing unusual about it, until she swears of registering with the national do not call (NDNC) registry eight months ago believing that unwanted calls would stop in the next 45 days.
Singh, who has two connections (Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications), vouches that all her friends have been getting similar unwanted calls as well. While the exact number of complaints is not available, a search on the net also threw up blogs agog with complaints of pesky calls and SMSes, and lamented the ineffectiveness of the NDNC process.
On September 1, 2007, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) reigned in the
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