Supreme Court gave a shock to mobile users !!!
Supreme court gave a shock to mobile users! The company will be able to issue the deactivated number to others
According to TRAI rules, till now the telecom company has deactivated the number which remains closed for 90 days, and allows it to another user.
Supreme Court
Bad news has come from the supreme court for mobile users, now the mobile users whose number will remain closed for 90 days, and the telecom company will be able to allot it to any other user without any restriction. Let us tell you that to stop this process, lawyer Rajeshwari filed a petition in the supreme court bench of Justice sanjeev Khanna and SVN Bhatti, which has been rejected by the supreme Court. Besides, this bench of the supreme court has also commented on the confidentiality of data. Let us know what is the whole matter.What will happen to the deactivated number after 90 days?
According to TRAI rules, till now the telecom company has deactivated the number which remains closed for 90 days, and allotted it to another user, against which lawyer Rajeshwari had filed a petition in the supreme Court. Advocate Sanjay Kapuri replied in the supreme court on behalf of TRAI and the supreme court seemed completely satisfied with this.In its affidavit, TRAI informed the supreme court that the DoT had issued two directions in april 2017, mandating that “the cellular mobile telephone connection of a subscriber deactivated for non-usage/disconnection on the request of the subscriber Will not be allotted to any other customer.” "A minimum period of 90 days from the date of deactivation/disconnection, or until the expiry of such longer period as may be specified by the Licensee."
Court said this in its decision
The supreme court, while dismissing the petition, said, “We are not inclined to proceed with the present writ petition, as it is clear from the counter affidavit filed by TRAI that the mobile telephone number, once deactivated due to non-use Added or deleted upon request. of the customer, is not allotted to any new customer for at least 90 days. It is up to the former customer to take adequate steps to maintain confidentiality.On the petitioner's concern about the breach of confidential data, the bench said, “The customer can prevent misuse of whatsapp data by deleting the whatsapp account linked to the previous phone number and erasing whatsapp data stored on local device memory/cloud/drive.