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TRAI regulations-Move from Push solutions to pull solutions

So, the Indian government went ahead and did something which only it can do best. It setup a new regulation which certainly made it much harder for people running a honest business :). Whether the new regulation will stop SMS/Voice spam is yet to be seen. More information and discussion about this can be found at  http://www.medianama.com/2011/09/223-the-impossibility-of-trais-sms-spam-regulations-anonymous/  and  http://www.medianama.com/2011/09/223-what-mobile-marketing-sms-cos-think-of-trais-sms-spam-regulations/ From KooKoo 's perspective it does not affect us too much as most of the KooKoo (http://www.kookoo.in) apps are inbound apps . But we do have certain apps which allow subscribers to register for alerts and sms/voice alerts have to be sent to them. For now, we are not allowing any outbound calls/sms to NCPR registered numbers until things clear up a bit and we are really sorry for the inconvenience. For affected businesses we suggest the following work around. Move