Latest Malayalam Christian Devotional Songs

Written by Johnlee Tuesday, 23 October 2012 09:00

Malayalam Christian Devotional Songs.

Below are the latest hit worship songs in 2012

1. Asadhyamayi Enikku Onnumilla

2. Ithrathollam Ennae Konduvaneeduvaan

3. Ennikkayi karuthunnavan

4. Stuthikunnu Njan En Daivame

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Stop Unsolicited Commercial Calls (UCC) and messages (SMS)

Written by Johnlee Thursday, 29 September 2011 23:58

 

The Indian telecom Industry is the second largest (after China) wireless market in the world with nearly 900 million subscribers. Low tariffs and direct reach to consumers has made SMS and direct calling (known as telemarketing) one of the most cost effective ways of selling products and services. This has introduced serious issues of invasion into privacy and has become a major annoyance to customers.

To control this and effectively regulate unsolicited commercial Calls and messages, TRAI has notified "The Telecom Commercial Communication Customer Preference Regulations, 2010". All the provisions of these regulations came into effect from 27th September, 2011.

The Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Portal (nccptrai.gov.in) is a data base containing a variety of information prescribed in "The Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations, 2010".

Now the landline and mobile phone customers who do not want to receive commercial communications can dial or SMS to 1909 (toll free) and register in either of the two categories:

Fully Blocked – this will stop all commercial Calls/SMS

Partially Blocked – this will stop all commercial Calls/SMS except SMS from one of the opted preferences

 

How to register?

You can register to this option using SMS

-         For fully blocked: write "START 0" and send it to 1909.

-         For partially blocked: send SMS 'START' with one or multiple options from the list of seven categories listed below.

Available customer preferences

-         Banking/Insurance/Financial Products/Credit Cards-1 

-         Real Estate-2 

-         Education-3 

-         Health-4 

-         Consumer goods and automobiles-5 

-         Communication/Broadcasting/Entertainment/IT-6 

-         Tourism-7

For example: If you wish to receive messages relating to only Health products, then send SMS "START 4" to 1909. Similarly, for receiving messages related to Education and Health, send SMS "START 3,4" to 1909. 

 

On successful registration, you will receive an SMS confirming the registration and a Unique Registration Number within 24 hrs. The registration will be effective within 7 days of placing the request. You can check the status of your registration by clicking on http://nccptrai.gov.in/nccpregistry/search.misc

You also change the preferences after 7 days of registration or the last change of preference.   

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Wondering what are these SMS Codes?

Written by Johnlee Sunday, 13 September 2009 21:39

You will be receiving SMS and alerts from Banks, companies, service providers etc. These SMS are coming some particular sender code like:

TA-ICICI, VX-Vodafone, AX-Airtel, AD-HDFCBANK, TM-ICICIBNK, TM-HDFC-Sec, TA-ICICILom and so on… 

Have you ever wondered what are these SMS codes and from where these SMS gets originated? Then below information will help you to understand this. 

Generally these SMSs are originated from a Bulk SMS Provider who uses 11 digit alpha-numeric characters as Sender Code. 

There was a potential security risk in this method because it was possible to give a phone number as Sender Code. It appears to the recipient that this SMS was originated from that particular phone number. This method can be used to send SMS from a fake phone number. 

 

TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) has identified this security risk and introduced the regulation which restricts the Bulk SMS Providers to use 8 character Sender Code. The remaining 3 characters are used to specify the service provider identity and the location of SMS origination. This prevents SMS Providers from sending unsolicited commercial communication. 

 

So the Sender Code has the following format. 

XY-CompanyName 

Here first character (X) is the service provider code.

Second character (Y) is the location of SMS origination.

And remaining 8 characters (followed by an hyphen) is used to specify company name.

 

Following table lists the Codes assigned to the service providers.

 

 

Following table lists the Codes assigned to the location (area).

 

 

So now let us dissect the sender code AD-HDFCBANK

Here first character A tells that the service provider is Airtel (Bharti)

Second character D tells the location Delhi

And the remaining characters tells the company name HDFC Bank.

 

So, I am sure next time you get an SMS with a code like this, you’ll know what it is.

 

 

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