Centre urges industry to protect mobile users from spam, fraud

New Delhi: The Centre has reiterated its call to protect mobile users from spam and fraud, asking stakeholders to ensure a more secure and efficient telecom ecosystem.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), in a meeting with representatives from IRDAI, PFRDA, RBI, SEBI, MoCA and MeitY, stressed the need for a joint effort to tackle the problem of spam messages and calls.

TRAI Chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti urged the regulators to discuss and enable implementation of whitelisting of URLs, APKs, OTT links and call back numbers to be sent in SMS, migration of existing telemarketers making promotional calls to 140 series on the distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform and declaration of entire chain of telemarketers engaged by them for PE-TM chain binding.