Unsolicited calls: Raja to meet telecom operators

NEW DELHI, INDIA: On the backdrop of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee receiving an unsolicited telemarketing call on his mobile amidst a key meeting recently, Telecom Minister A.Raja has convened a meeting of the telecom operators on Friday.

The meeting would discuss ways to curb the unsolicited calls from tele-callers.

After the incident, Raja had said that such calls are “encroaching” into the privacy of telecom consumers. Though TRAI had been trying hard to ban such nuisance, it never bore fruit.

“A wide range of products and services are offered through tele-marketing, resulting in inconvenience and disturbance to telecom consumers,” said Raja in a note to Telecom Secretary P J Thomas.