{"id":1003237,"date":"2026-04-16T11:08:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003237"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:07:56","slug":"telcos-revive-ott-regulation-push-amid-spam-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/16\/telcos-revive-ott-regulation-push-amid-spam-spike\/","title":{"rendered":"Telcos revive OTT regulation push amid spam spike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom operators have revived their demand for a common regulatory framework across communication platforms, linking the long-standing issue to a sharp rise in spam calls and scam messages. <\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, a leading operator has written to the department of telecommunications, the ministry of electronics and information technology, and the ministry of finance, stating that tighter controls on telecom networks are pushing fraudulent activity towards over-the-top (OTT) messaging and calling platforms, where oversight remains limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom operators have revived their demand for a common regulatory framework across communication platforms, linking the long-standing issue to a sharp rise in spam calls and scam messages. In recent weeks, a leading operator has written to the department of telecommunications, the ministry of electronics and information technology, and the ministry of finance, stating that tighter controls on telecom networks are pushing fraudulent activity towards over-the-top (OTT) messaging and calling platforms, where oversight remains limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}