Airtel’s AI-powered spam filter catches 8 bn calls and 0.8 bn SMS

Airtel’s Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered spam filter has flagged 8 billion spam calls and 0.8 billion spam SMS within 2.5 months of launching, the company said on Monday. It successfully identified close to 1 million spammers every day on Airtel’s network, where 6 per cent of all calls and 2 per cent of all SMS have been noted as spam.

The telco was the first to launch a spam filter for its network in late September. Two and a half months since then, the AI-driven technology has successfully detected nearly 1 million spammers daily.