Airtel flags 8 billion spam calls in over 2 months

Telecom service provider-Bharti Airtel has flagged a staggering 8 billion(800 crore) spam calls and 0.8 billion(80 crore) spam SMSes within two-and-a-half months of launching its AI-powered, spam-fighting solution. Leveraging this advanced algorithm, the AI-powered network has successfully identified close to one million spammers every day.

The company said in a statement that over the aforementioned period, it had alerted close to 252 million(25.2 crore) unique customers to these suspicious calls and had observed there had been a 12 per cent decline in the number of customers answering them. Six per cent of all calls on the Airtel network have been identified as spam calls, while two per cent of all SMSes have also been identified as spam. Interestingly, it has been observed that a staggering 35 per cent of the spammers used landline telephones.