Trai pushes MeitY to act strongly to curb spam, phishing on OTT appsThe telecom regulator is urging the Ministry of Electronics and IT to address the rise in spam and phishing on OTT apps like WhatsApp and T...
06 Sep, 2024, 08.48 AM IST
Trai move to curb fraud could ring in an SMS outage next monthStarting next month, Indian consumers may experience disruptions in receiving service and transactional messages due to a new directive fro...
24 Aug, 2024, 01.27 PM IST
Telcos push for compliance parity with OTTs on pesky calls & SMSes"The industry has developed various modules over the DLT framework, which have been reasonably successful, considering the noticeable decli...
21 May, 2024, 11.46 PM IST
Govt takes steps to curb multiple ways of cyber fraud: Devusinh Chauhan“As on date, among outcomes of the Sanchar Saathi portal are that 55.52 lakh mobile connections taken on fake/forged documents were disconn...
13 Dec, 2023, 05.54 PM IST
Trai directs telcos to check spam calls, texts using AI/ MLThe Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) wants telcos to use cutting edge tech tools around AI/ML to counter UTMs, especially as th...
13 Jun, 2023, 07.16 PM IST
Telcos may have to share data to curb pesky messagesTrai had mandated telcos to move all commercial messaging (one-time passwords, promotional messages, account balance updates, etc.) to the ...
07 Jun, 2023, 08.47 AM IST
Telecom regulator to recommend AI, ML software features to curb pesky SMSes"We will soon inform telecom operators to use AI, ML software to curb Unsolicited Commercial Communication (UCC) with certain characteristi...
24 Apr, 2023, 04.41 PM IST
Solving pesky calls, SMS issue tough: TelcosAccording to industry estimates, the number of such UTMs across India is easily over double the 250,000-odd authorised telemarketers regist...
03 Apr, 2023, 12.57 AM IST
TRAI’s DLT mechanism to check pesky messages has failed: Route CEO Rajdip GuptaThe implementation process, which started in 2019, has been stuck on the third stage - gathering consumer consent to receive messages from ...
01 Apr, 2023, 12.19 PM IST
Mobile users unlikely to get relief from pesky calls, text messages soon, say telco executivesSenior industry executives said a possible solution to the pesky calls problem is for either the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Tra...
31 Mar, 2023, 08.32 AM IST
Trai sets May 1 deadline for telcos to review detect system for barring pesky calls, unwanted SMSesThe Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has also called for further tightening of the registration exercise of principal entities ...
29 Mar, 2023, 12.24 AM IST
Trai flooded with complaints of pesky calls, messagesThe development has prompted the regulator to expedite fresh steps to curb the menace. For starters, a Joint Committee of Regulators (JCOR)...
28 Nov, 2022, 06.06 PM IST
Trai ropes in financial regulators to curb phishing, cyber fraudsThe Telecom Regulatory Authority of India panel analysed the matter and has identified certain areas in a bid to find ways to prevent finan...
15 Nov, 2022, 09.17 AM IST
Is India ready for digital rupee?While both Central Bank Digital Currencies or CBDC and cryptocurrencies work on the DLT technology, the goals are different. CBDC could be ...
27 Apr, 2021, 08.56 AM IST
Tired of SMS spam? Curate your inbox…one by oneYou will soon have a choice to decide who can send you an SMS by confirming or denying your consent. You can even tell the brand which day ...
11 Apr, 2021, 11.14 AM IST
More stringent checks on spam SMSes under new system: TraiThe authority also said that most of the genuine entities have registered themselves since volumes of traffic of commercial communication h...
28 Aug, 2020, 03.05 PM IST
Tata Communications joins as governing council member of Hedera HashgraphHedera is a distributed ledger technology company that is building systems that aspire to be faster than the current block chain technology.
12 Aug, 2019, 07.07 PM IST