Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti stressed the need for a joint effort to tackle the problem of spam messages and calls. TRAI had a meeting of the Joint Committee of Regulatory to protect consumers from harms of spam calls and fraudulent messages, in New Delhi yesterday. 

During the meeting, the Chairman urged regulators to enable the implementation of whitelisting of URLs, APKs, OTT links, and call-back numbers to be sent in SMS. He also called for migration of promotion calls by existing telemarketers to 140 series on the distributed ledger technology platform.

Enhancing information exchange among regulators to control frauds using telecom resources were also discussed during the meeting.