Pay mobile bills of TATA DoCoMo network via SMS (India)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Facilitating payment of the mobile bill for its customers, Tata DoCoMo and ItzCash signed an agreement wherein the users can pay their bills via SMS using an ItzCash card.
The company also said that there are no hidden costs, charge-backs and reversals and the consumers can also utilize the full value of the card with all transactions confirmed in real time.
As per the service, users of TATA DoCoMo will have to SMS the keyword ‘PAYBILL’, amount to be paid, account number of the ItzCash and password and send it to 121.
ItzCash Card is available at ItzCash franchisees in denominations ranging from Rs. 100 to Rs. 10,000. Orders for the card can be placed online by the customers.
Bharti, BSNL, Idea, Aircel digilink violated user check norm: DoT
New Delhi, Aug 27: The first penalty over failure to undertake subscriber verification may well be a reality with Department of Telecom finding four mobile operators – Bharti Airtel, Aircel Digilink, Idea Mobile and the state-owned BSNL for violating the norm for Haryana circle.
Currently at an internal discussion stage, a DoT note said, “the licensees of BSNL, Aircel Digilink, Bharti Airtel and Idea Mobile Communications have violated the conditions of their respective agreements.”
As per the conditions of the agreement, actions could be taken for violations and a financial penalty could be imposed not exceeding Rs 50 crore or the license agreement could be terminated after giving a notice of 60 days in advance, said an internal note of DoT.
But the proposal has to get the approval from Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran and DoT has to issue first a notice to them why they should not be penalised.
DoT’s stern proposal also emanates from its own findings that these operators have provided multiple connections in single names. On scrutiny as many as 30,630 connections of Bharti Airtel was found to be without records.
The note said even if connections are given on different dates if the number of connections are 10 or more for a single user as well as for a single location, it should be treated as bulk connections.
The note says all operators have failed to answer specifically about the compliance of instructions issued by the licensor in respect of — carrying out special verification for bulk connections, devising appropriate fraud management and prevention programme and maintaining a record of check for verification by the licensor.
Besides other instructions — inspection of bulk user premises at regular interval for satisfying about bonafide use and maintaining records of inspection and preserving the same for minimum one year — have also not been followed.
BSNL has not furnished any reply in respect of allegations made against it and rather sought clarifications from DoT.
Aircel Digilink India, Idea Mobile Communications and Reliance Communications have raised issues regarding non-availability of requisite documents with the most of the bonafide customers and tried to shift the responsibility of subscriber verification on the respective franchisees.
Tata Teleservices has stated that connections provided by them do not fall under the bulk connections category as the connections were provided on different dates.
The DoT’s vigilance wing carried out a check of subscriber verification by different operators in Haryana telecom circle after widespread allegation that operators were giving bulk connections not adhering to subscriber verifications. Accordingly, replies were sought from operators there.
Source- http://www.zeenews.com
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