Govt bans SMS for post-paid mobile users in J&K

New Delhi, Apr 16 (PTI) The government of India on Friday
banned short message service (SMS) for post-paid subscribers
in the north Indian state, Jammu and Kashmir while restricting
the facility for pre-paid users from midnight tonight due to
security concerns.
The Department of Telecom has asked all the 12 operators,
including state-owned BSNL and other private players like
Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar, to withdraw text message
service to their post-paid users in J&K altogether.
"In case of existing post-paid users, the service should
be withdrawn immediately," a statement from DoT said.
In case of pre-paid subscribers, the facility has been
restricted to 10 SMSes per day per subscriber.
"SMS messages originated outside J&K service area in
India and from the networks of International Long Distance
(ILD)operators should not be delivered to Mobile subscribers
in J&K service area," the statement said.
The operators have also been asked to immediately stop
all tariff packages offering free SMS service. MORE PTI PML
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