[1]Foul cries by businesses and college students aside, TRAI's initiative to check pesky calls and text messages has dealt a cruel blow to the hearing impaired, who feel the SMS cap would rob them of a handy way of communication.
SMS has been a great boon to the hearing impaired and the Telecom Regulatory Authority's latest decision to limit it the service to 100 pages per day has not gone down well with them.
TRAI's decision also comes in the way of communication between hearing impaired students, who live and study away from homes, and their families.
Chennai-based Class 11 student Debaprana Sarkar says the cap seems "unnecessarily disturbing her communication."
While there have been demands to exclude the hearing impaired from the rule, Sarkar does not agree with it. "It seems to be stupid and unnecessary. I'm not saying that only hearing impaired people should be excluded from the rule. If my friends can't text more than 100 SMSes, what is the point of me having beyond 100 messages?" she wonders.
"What if there is an emergency and you have exhausted the 100 SMS limit. You should understand our problems too," says the hearing impaired student.
"It is a tight restriction for the deaf. This move has seriously affected my friends who are living away from home for studies. They can't make calls to their homes unlike other students," says post-graduate student Kevin J (name changed) from Kerala.
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