\"In accordance with Telecom regulatory Authority of India, TRAI<\/a> guidelines named as TCCCPR 2018, BSNL customers are requested not to use their mobile\/landline for sending commercial communication of any type in any form of call or SMS\", it read.
The operator has also laid down in the advisory, regulations for telemarketers<\/a> and business entities who wish to send commercial communication to its customers.
The advisory read, \" To implement the new regulation, BSNL has developed the DLT portal www.ucc-bsnl.co.in. All the telemarketers \/ Business entities, who want to send commercial communication to their customers, have to register themselves with BSNL on DLT portal as per new TRAI regulations. Telemarketers may use only designated number series and SMS pipe for commercial communications.\"
The telco has further asked its users to set their preferences based on product category, day, time, mode of communication so as to receive promotions or block them as they deem fit.
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