Telecom Regulatory Authority Of India - Subsection
Section 2(F) in Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations, 2018
(F)information relating to delivery of goods or services, including product updates or upgrades, that the recipient is entitled to receive under the terms of a transaction that the recipient has previously consented to enter into with the sender;(bi)"Signature" means pattern in communications from particular telephone number(s) or telecom resource(s) or person, entity which are not registered with the access provider(s) for commercial communication purposes and also includes pattern in communications from particular sender(s), who are registered with the access provider(s) but not authorised to send commercial communication of particular type or for specific purpose(s) which may require additional authorisations from relevant Government or statutory bodies to send such commercial communications;(bj)"Silent Call" means any unsolicited call made by a person or an entity to a customer for a very short duration in which either called party has not yet been alerted by his or her device, or it is very unlikely to be answered, wherein the intention of caller is to get call back from called party and then enter into commercial communication;(bk)"Smart contract" means a functionality of intelligent and programmable code which can execute predetermined commands or business rules set to pre-check regulatory compliance without further human intervention and suitable for DLT system to create a digital agreement, with cryptographic certainty that the agreement has been honored in the ledgers, databases or accounts of all parties to the agreement;(bl)"Smartphone" means a device with large display, predominantly with touch screen technology, fast processor and memory in the GB range. A fully-featured Operating System or platform that provides voice and data communications capabilities, enables personalization of the device by the user and in addition supports installation and maintenance of mobile applications e.g., downloadable from an Application store.(bm)"SMS" means a message which is sent through short message service and includes a Multi-Media message which is sent through Multi-Media message service (MMS);(bn)"Subscriber" means a person or legal entity who subscribes to a telecom service provided by an Access Provider;(bo)"Telecom resources" means any telegraph used to send voice call or messages;(bp)"Telemarketer" means a person or legal entity engaged in the activity of transmission or delivery of commercial communication or scrubbing or aggregation.(bq)"Telephone number" means a number which may or may not have been assigned to the subscriber of a Public Switched Telecom Network (PSTN) or a wireless access network or a mobile network from a numbering series already assigned to a telecom service providers to which either an SMS or MMS can be sent, or Voice calls can be made.
