TRAI plans to eliminate tariffs for service data-based mobile banking, support text alerts for disaster

Private telecom operators Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Jio have urged the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to introduce a graded reduction in Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) messages that appear as pop-up messages without getting stored in the inbox. The private telcos noted that reducing the…