SMS Blocked for 15 days

SMS count-regulation

Recentely ,each and every network is facing this problem.Users are unable to send messages .After sending 5 messages,people are getting this-Due to govt. directives, More than 5 SMS per day are blocked.Please retry tomorrow. Anticipate your co-operation.

Reason for ban :

The government's decision to ban bulk SMS and MMS services for 15 days, to check spread of rumours that has led to exodus of north-eastern people(violence in assam) from certain parts of the country..The department of telecommunications (DoT) has already sent out directives to telecom operators asking them to ban such services with immediate effect.This is not the first time the government has banned such services. During Independence Day, bulk SMS service was not allowed in Jammu and Kashmir. Also, after the Ayodha verdict, bulk the service was banned for a certain time period. The licence agreement of telecom operators have conditions under which in the interest of national security the government can ask operators to ban certain services.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh intervened in  the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha when the Houses took up for discussion, by suspending question hour, attacks on the northeast people and their exodus. He said the growing sense of insecurity among the northeast people was “more reprehensible.”

Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said he had directed intelligence personnel to trace the source of rumours and false information being spread against the northeast population through SMSs and websites such as YouTube and facebook. Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh said that to check rumours, bulk SMSs and MMSs have been banned for 15 days with immediate effect. No one would be allowed to send more than 5 SMSs at a time and more than 20 KB of data through mobile phones.
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