Regulators such as RBI, SEBI, Trai, along with government departments like the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, and ...

"The industry has developed various modules over the DLT framework, which have been reasonably successful, considering the noticeable decli...

The Indian government may consider regulating or issuing guidelines to over-the-top channels like WhatsApp to combat the rise of pesky call...

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

The Indian Telecom Regulatory Authority (Trai) has issued new directions to combat increasing pesky calls and messages. Telcos will now hav...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has also called for further tightening of the registration exercise of principal entities ...

The move comes even as mobile users are being increasingly bombarded by the menace of pesky calls and messages, leading to thousands of cro...

As per the Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulation (TCCCPR) 2018, the access providers are registering complaints ...

Telcos, it said, would also “need to share details with mobile users of the relevant web portal/apps created” in their upcoming media campa...

This new capability, the company said, provides developers with the ability to create an app extension that allows users to report both unw...

The company has steadfastly refused to install any such app so far.

Trai said it has now sought comments and counter-comments by November 9 and November 16 instead of the earlier October 12 and October 26 de...

Charges of data colonisation have remained unresolved and have now led to an open attack on the American electronics giant by Trai top boss...

Almost 80 per cent of pesky calls in the last two years originated in networks of Aircel, Tata Teleservices and Reliance Communications.

Mobile phone users may get some relief from pesky messages and unwanted value added services that have been activated without their consent

The regulator also said that telcos must charge a minimum of 50 paise for every message sent beyond the prescribed limit.

"Trai is taking it up (pesky calls/SMSes issue). I also face lot of problem. Every two minutes I get such SMS," Sibal told reporters.