Airtel blocks 154 million spam calls, 8 million spam messages in Bengal in last 28 days

Airtel on Wednesday said it has blocked 154 million spam calls and 8 million spam messages in Bengal in the last 28 days. Amid rising spam and fraudulent calls and messages, Airtel said it has built a capability of processing 1.5 billion messages and 2.5 billion calls in two milliseconds, using an in house developed AI algorithm.

Users of Airtel will be able to see “Suspected Spam” when receiving calls and messages from the identified numbers.