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Plus the viewer-friendly, Ghar Baithe Jeeto Jackpot. Ditto for the format - 13 questions lead to 5 crore with four lifelines - audience poll, phone-a-friend, double dip and expert advice. There's no attempt to dazzle the viewers with exciting introductions or alterations into the game by way of lifelines, rules, prize sum or set design. While our man continues to be delightful and distinct as ever, the sixth season has decidedly lost some of its novelty and fizz. And so, the Big B's back with yet another season of Kaun Banega Crorepati or like he says ' Panchkoti Gyankumbh.' That alone suffices to make him an ideal candidate to host a game show that involves the common man's participation and interaction. The 69-year-old's popularity has not just expanded over the decades but sustained itself even in this day and age of instant gratification and disposal. But since an average one in five calls don’t get connected, the 30-second message will play out completely and cover most mobile users throughout the day at some point, and at the same time reduce customer inconvenience during emergency calls, said Upadhyay.Īn analyst at a leading global brokerage said “such a move is unlikely to ruffle feathers in telco circles as ringtone services generate less than 1% of operator revenues and are also offered as a complimentary value-added service feature by some carriers”.When it comes to entertainment, few succeed like Amitabh Bachchan does. In such a scenario, the covid message would stop abruptly once a call is connected. Telecom experts at Consumer Voice have suggested to the government and the sector regulator that a possible workaround could be the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) mandating a blanket replacement of call ring tones with the Covid19 message in public interest. But it regularly plays out when consumers dial emergency helplines. While the government-mandated covid pre-call announcement starts playing in mobile network calls, it does not play for calls via Whatsapp, FaceTime or Messenger. But another official said that any decision pertaining to the Covid19 pre-call announcement is within the domain of the DoT, and not Trai. Trai Secretary Sunil Gupta said he is not aware of the letter, and so can't comment. The association added that other negative fallouts include more frequent charging of phones and therefore more energy consumption. The association’s observations are based on feedback from numerous mobile users across the country.

“Covid messaging is no longer the educative tool it was meant to be and has often become a hindrance when people dial emergency helpline numbers, affecting the response time to such calls, rendering such services ineffective,” Hemant Upadhyay, advisor-projects (IT & Telecom), at Consumer Voice, a leading consumer association, wrote in a joint letter to Prasad, Goyal and Vaghela.ĮT has reviewed a copy of the letter, dated January 5. And that it has become a source of annoyance, and that mobile users largely ignore it because people are already aware of the criticality of social distancing protocols and usage of masks. A leading consumer association has dialed communications and consumer affairs ministries respectively, and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) Chairman P D Vaghela, saying the repetitive nature of the pandemic-related messaging has outlived its relevance.
