Airtel has recommended mandatory scrubbing, business verification, and data sharing between OTTs and telcos to create a unified anti-spam e...

In the immediate term, the blockchain registration system was able to weed out unregistered spammers. The number of headers being used to s...

The IRDAI has instructed insurance companies and insurance intermediaries not to call customers from a standard 10-digit mobile number in a...

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT), in collaboration with the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), has taken this decisive action to pro...

PEs or principal entities are the enterprises that send commercial messages to customers using SMS. In 2018, Trai mandated the use of a DLT...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has directed all principal entities, including banks and financial institutions, to conduc...

The overall delivery rate till late Thursday was 84.11%, meaning 600 million commercial SMSes have been able to pass the rigid filters, or ...

“The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India will accept no reason, give no consideration and no extension to all those who have not streamli...

The Authority has ordered telecom companies to resume filtering of messages and block non-compliant traffic from April 1, as “consumers can...

In a letter to telecom companies and all telemarketing firms dated March 25, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said, “As suf...

“Unfortunately, despite repeated communication, all major banks and big telemarketers sending SMS have failed to fulfil regulatory requirem...

The regulator said non- compliance with the provisions of Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations, 2018 (TCCCP Re...

Separately, telecom operators are expected to meet Telecom Regulatory Authority of India officials on Tuesday to discuss hurdles faced by t...

“We are concerned about any customer inconvenience caused and have ordered a 7-day temporary suspension of the SMS scrubbing which was acti...

Meanwhile, operators have defended their system and called out lax adoption by companies who have failed to comply with regulatory standard...

ET had reported in November that the telecom regulator had imposed penalties collectively amounting to Rs 35 crore on eight operators inclu...

Telemarketing company Venets Media in the ongoing lawsuit with Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has alleged that the authority ...