Telcos such as Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea as well as the Cellular Operators Association of India were united in their de...

Tech companies have rejected telecom operators' demands to regulate OTT messaging platforms like WhatsApp for spam control. They argue that...

Users can now select the type of messages they would like to receive from businesses, such as OTPs, sales, offers or customer service messa...

DoT and Trai are struggling to curb spam and scams on OTT platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal. While WhatsApp is cooperating to s...

After disrupting the SMS channel, WhatsApp is piloting calling functionality for large enterprises, which could cause a channel shift from ...

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in New Delhi warned mobile users about potential scams involving calls from foreign numbers like...

While a few models to check spam and phishing are being worked on, the regulator does not want to disclose the details so as not to alert f...

The telecom regulator will soon call the app makers for a meeting during which it will discuss how these over-the-top (OTT) communication p...

The problem is that while telcos and the regulator have been working to create artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions to check spam c...

LocalCircles survey on WhatsApp spam calls: 46% of users surveyed confirmed that they have been facing an onslaught of audio or video calls...

The Meta-owned instant messaging platform hopes to completely stop spam calls over the next two days, a source said.

The digital platforms are responsible and accountable for ensuring the safety of 'digital nagriks', Chandrasekhar said, adding that the gov...

These spam calls with international numbers, mostly from African and Southeast Asian countries, along with fake messages from unknown users...

Telemarketing and scamming calls have been on the rise in countries like India, where users gets about 17 spam calls per month on average, ...

WhatsApp is pushing an update for beta users that will allow them to mute notifications.

The spokesperson added that in India, in accordance with the government's IT rules, it also publishes monthly reports that contain details ...

The policy will also take on spam more actively and use WhatsApp's integration with Facebook for better friend suggestions and drive greate...