Trai directs telcos to blacklist entities misusing connections for spam calls

India’s telecom regulator has directed telcos to disconnect all the telecom resources given by them to any entity, which is found to be misusing its bulk connections for making spam calls and blacklist it for a period of two years, as it looks to curb the menace of spam communications, particularly robocalls and pre-recorded voice calls.

Further, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said the telco which has disconnected the telecom resources of any such entity for being involved in spam, should share the information with other operators, so that they can also disconnect resources of the entity and blacklist it for two years. “No new telecom resources shall be allocated to it by any TSP (telecom service provider) during the period of blacklisting,” Trai said.