TRAI Chairman holds meeting with Regulatory Heads of Telecom Service Providers
TRAI Chairman holds meeting with Regulatory Heads of Telecom Service Providers
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) held a meeting, under the chairmanship of Chairperson, TRAI with Regulatory Heads of all the Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) here today. The meeting was attended by the Chief Regulatory Officers of Airtel, BSNL, Quadrant Televentures Limited (QTL), Reliance Jio, Tata Teleservices Limited, Vodafone Idea Limited and V-CON Mobile & Infra Private Limited. Representatives of MTNL and Reliance Communications Limited didn’t turn up for the meeting.
The following issues were discussed during the meeting-
After detailed deliberations, the following decisions were taken-
TRAI emphasized that there is an urgent need to take firm action on spammers using PRI/SIP connections for voice calls/Robo calls/Pre-recorded calls without further delay. All the TSPs promised to extend full support to TRAI in curbing the menace of spam calls and implement all the Directions of TRAI within timeframe.
- Spam calls by Entities sending bulk commercial communications through PRI/SIP or Bulk Connections.
- Migration of all Telemarketers and Enterprise making bulk calls to DLT platform
- Entity and Telemarketer Chain Binding for traceability of messages.
- Whitelisting of URLs for blocking of messages containing malicious links.