UPI users alert! Banks & UPI apps to implement new mobile number verification rules from April 1, 2025NPCI issues new guidelines requiring banks and UPI apps to update mobile number records weekly to avoid errors from recycled numbers. From ...
25 Mar, 2025, 05.08 PM IST
Aadhaar seeding for Atal Pension Yojana (APY) subscribers using CRA portal, mobile: Important features, how to useAPY-SPs can collect the Aadhaar details from their associated subscribers who are their customers with due consent which would then be shar...
11 Jan, 2023, 11.07 AM IST
TRAI seeks views on mandatory caller ID display on all mobile phones to check spam, fraudhas sought feedback from industry on whether existing telecom networks already support provisioning of the proposed calling name presentati...
29 Nov, 2022, 08.26 PM IST
DoT to fine Rs 10,000 for fraud messages with fake headersAny sender who is caught sending an SMS using invalid header will be fined in the range of Rs1,000 to Rs 10,000 per violation, plus permane...
05 Jul, 2021, 03.33 PM IST
How to link Aadhaar with Airtel mobile numberNow you can verify your mobile number with Aadhaar sitting at home if your mobile number is registered with the UIDAI database.
17 Jan, 2018, 11.21 AM IST
Aadhaar-mobile verification: No relief for NRIs, senior citizens and handicappedWith the online option yet to be launched, senior citizens, handicapped people, and NRIs can use the IVR option. However, this facility is ...
11 Jan, 2018, 03.28 PM IST
Telcos may seek PMO nod to use Aadhaar biometric database to speed up subscriber verificationThe operators are planning to write to the PMO that they want to use the Aadhaar database to sell SIM cards or connections.
31 Aug, 2015, 07.17 AM IST
Department of Telecom examining proposal of taking fingerprint for new SIM cardHe added the suggestion "is presently being examined in DoT and decision on the same is yet to be taken".
07 Aug, 2013, 05.01 PM IST
- Trai seeks easing of mobile subscriber verification norms
Trai seeks easing of mobile subscriber verification norms, saying the new norms will put “unnecessary burden” on operators as well as subsc...
20 Mar, 2012, 03.18 AM IST
- UID No. to be used for mobile user verification
The Unique Identification (UID) number project, which is poised to use the 700 million-plus mobile subscriber database and distribution net...
29 Dec, 2010, 05.46 AM IST
- BSNL offers free SIM with landline connection
To arrest the fast depleting user base of its landline services, the state-run telecom major BSNL today announced a free mobile SIM with it...
27 Oct, 2010, 09.10 PM IST
- Unique identity project to mine cellphone data: Nandan Nilekani
The Union govt's ambitious and high-tech unique identity or UID project is all set to ride on India’s 500 million strong telecom network as...
25 Sep, 2009, 09.13 AM IST
- Nilekani meets telecom secy for cooperation
Unique Identification Authority of India Chairman Nandan Nilekani on Thursday met Telecom Secretary Siddarth Behura seeking co-operation fr...
24 Sep, 2009, 09.33 PM IST
- Fake IMEI numbers worry DoT, asks telcos not to carry calls
The government has asked mobile operators to comply with national security norms by not carrying calls from fake mobile equipment identific...
14 Sep, 2009, 04.29 PM IST
- DNC stands for dial new customers
Rather than subscribing to fixed-line connections, small telemarketers are using mobile phones to bypass the brunt of the DNC registry.
04 Jun, 2008, 12.54 AM IST
- DoT plans to tighten user verification norms
Telecom operators will have to pay a penalty and immediately de-activate a pre-paid mobile connection if they fail to follow the new norms ...
02 Dec, 2006, 12.45 AM IST
- DoT tightens subscriber verification norms
Telecom operators will have to pay a penalty and immediately de-activate a pre-paid mobile connection if they fail to follow the new norms ...
01 Dec, 2006, 03.20 PM IST