TRAI eases SMS cap to 200 per day

Telecom consumers will now be able tosend up to 200 SMS es per day from a SIM, as against the earlier limit of just100 SMSes per day imposed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Tra i).

"The authority has received representations from someof the service providers and consumers to increase the limit of 100 SMSes perday per SIM. The authority has considered these representations and decided toincrease the limit of 100 SMSes per day per SIM to 200 SMSes per day perSIM," Trai said in a statement today.

To deter unsolicited SMSes by telemarketing companies, Traihad earlier restricted the number of non-commercial SMSes that can be send froma SIM to 100. There was no restriction on commercial messages sent throughtelemarketing companies registered with Trai.

The new cap of 200 SMSes per sim per day will be effectivefrom Tuesday.