PIL makes Operators spring into action against telemarketers
The days of those irritating and unwanted calls from telemarketers trying to sell you a credit card or a personal loan seem to be numbered. Top cellular operators are moving to weed out telemarketing calls from their networks.
The initiative to weed the
Cell hell
According to the Mumbai’s Western and Central Railway police records, of the 669 complaints of mobile thefts registered last year, the highest incidences had taken place in Malad (65) and Kurla (61) suburban railway stations.
The thefts at these stations take place on certain compartments and spots on bridges. Mobile flickers take advantage of the rush [...]
Bluffmaster
Times of India reports that the Bandra police arrested two persons who, under the pretext of selling mobile phones, cheated citizens by selling them soaps inside the phone cartons.
Ibrahim Shafi Khan (24) and Sarfaraz Yunus Khan (22) would stand outside Manish market at CST and sell expensive camera-phones at cheap rates.
They would brandish a phone, [...]
Patil to discuss telecom controversy
In the wake of the controversy over the tapping of the phone of Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh, Home Minister Shivraj Patil is likely to call a meeting of CEOs of all public and private telecom companies.
The meeting is expected to work out a plan for plugging loopholes in telecom companies that could lead to [...]
Bollywood’s phone problems
Phones are landing Bollywood stars in trouble. This week saw two controversies where phones played an enabling role - the Mallika Sherawat MMS case and the Salman Khan tapes.
ToI talks of how such MMS clips benefit Cellcos and rants about the inadequacy of IT laws in the country. While it may be true that the [...]
FIR not required to claim Cell thefts insurance
An insurance company, which refused to indemnify the owner of a lost mobile phone for the reason that she did not produce a copy of the FIR of the police complaint, has been ordered by a consumer court to pay the claim amount of Rs 8,700 along with compensation.
The National Insurance Company had repudiated Deepika [...]
SMS spoofing
Story on SMS Spoofing by The Hindu. Faking sender’s number in SMS is easy using some software front-end and the bulk SMS providers as the carriers.
For the bulk SMS providers, one way to control this menace and not get involved in the legal tangles is to authenticate their customer’s “sender” mobile number. This can be [...]
Mobile Cloning
The city police booked their first-ever case of phone cloning recently
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