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Telcos, businesses spar over calls, SMS consent regimeTelecom companies and banks are in a dispute over India's new digital consent rules for commercial messages. Major telecom players want con...
AI Wants to Answer Your Phone Now: Equal AI’s $30 Million Bet on the Future of Call Screening in IndiaIndian startup Equal AI has raised $30 million to expand its AI-powered call screening platform that answers and filters calls on users' be...
Keshav Reddy's Equal AI raises $30 million in round led by Prosus, Tomales Bay CapitalThe round also saw participation from Think Investments, Valiant Fund, PhonePe founder Sameer Nigam, and Zubin Bharti Mittal, among others....
Trai plan to regulate internet TV triggers pushback from OTT, broadcaster groupsIn a bid to regulate, India's telecom authority TRAI is exploring potential guidelines for online television services, sparking a backlash ...
Telcos urge TRAI to regulate OTT apps as spam shifts onlineTelecom firms report most spam now bypasses regulations via internet apps. They urge the regulator to bring these platforms under control. ...
HDFC AMC reports cyber-security incident, activates containment protocolsHDFC AMC has reported a cyber-security incident. An anonymous source claimed access to its IT systems. The company is assessing the impact....
Bharti Airtel shares gain over 2% after Q4 results. Why Morgan Stanley sees more upsideShares of Bharti Airtel rose over 2% on Thursday despite a 34% YoY fall in March-quarter consolidated net profit to Rs 7,325 crore. Investo...
Bharti Airtel Q4 Results: Profit falls 34% YoY to Rs 7,325 crore even as revenue jumps 16%Bharti Airtel Q4 Results: Bharti Airtel reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 7,325 crore for Q4 FY26, a 34% year-on-year decline, despi...
IAMAI alleges Trai attempts to regulate OTT platformsIndustry body IAMAI claims Trai is overstepping its bounds. Proposed rules for spam calls may unfairly target over-the-top platforms like W...
Telcos vs OTT apps: Trai's spam rules spark row with Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, Vodafone IdeaTelcos such as Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea as well as the Cellular Operators Association of India were united in their de...
Employee who had worked for 10 years in company was not aware he was laid off: ‘Even my manager didn’t know…’An employee learned of his termination indirectly after a colleague was laid off, only to discover his own supervisor was also unaware and ...
TRAI proposes AI tools to detect & block spam calls, messagesTelecom regulator TRAI is proposing new rules. Telecom companies will soon be allowed to use AI tools. These tools will help detect and blo...
Airtel, Google partner to check spam in messages with web linkBharti Airtel is partnering with Google to deploy an AI-enabled spam protection tool on Google's messaging platform. This collaboration aim...
Trai again: DoT dials up heat on telemarketersThe Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is urging the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) to regulate telemarketers in response...
Spammers call the shots as users stay silentMany mobile users in India are still vulnerable to spam. Trai reports that only a small fraction of users have registered their communicati...
Bring OTTs under India’s cybersecurity rules: COAITelecom carriers are urging the government to regulate over-the-top (OTT) communication platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram under India's ...
Telcos face new fines over failure to curb spam callsIndia's telecom regulator, TRAI, has fined major telecom operators around ₹12 crore for failing to curb spam calls, adding to previous unpa...
Trai directs telcos to blacklist entities misusing connections for spam callsThe Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) mandated telecom operators to disconnect and blacklist for two years any entity misusing b...
Nearly a million complaints regarding spam calls/messages logged in 2022Last year, telcos disconnected 32, 032 numbers that were found in repeated violation of regulations regarding telemarketing, while more tha...
Tata Comm in tie up to prevent telco revenue losses due to spamGrey route messaging traffic, typically, happens when message aggregators take advantage of non-contracted routes to send large volumes of ...