Tech cos push back against telcos’ call to regulate WhatsApp, Google RCS for spam control

Mumbai: Technology companies have rejected telecom operators’ demand to bring OTT messaging channels like Meta’s WhatsApp and Google RCS under the centralised blockchain system and regulate them to check spam, saying it wasn’t technically possible. The telcos’ call to look at anti-spam measures through the prism of regulation was flawed and overlooked the need for innovation to check the menace, they said.