{"id":1006485,"date":"2026-05-02T09:14:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006485"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:43:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:13:54","slug":"trai-dnd-app-explained-why-this-is-your-best-tool-against-spam-calls-from-unregistered-phone-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/02\/trai-dnd-app-explained-why-this-is-your-best-tool-against-spam-calls-from-unregistered-phone-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAI DND app explained: Why this is your best tool against spam calls from unregistered phone numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of the latest innovations and cutting-edge AI technology, spam calls continue to be a nightmare for billions of telecom customers in India. Airtel advertises an anti-spam technology in its network, while apps like Truecaller offer various features to cut down on spam calls and messages. But spammers always figure out more ways to cause trouble, with the latest trend being UTMs. In 2025 alone, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) disconnected 1,84,482 connections belonging to Unregistered Telemarketers based on consumer complaints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of the latest innovations and cutting-edge AI technology, spam calls continue to be a nightmare for billions of telecom customers in India. Airtel advertises an anti-spam technology in its network, while apps like Truecaller offer various features to cut down on spam calls and messages. But spammers always figure out more ways to cause trouble, with the latest trend being UTMs. In 2025 alone, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) disconnected 1,84,482 connections belonging to Unregistered Telemarketers based on consumer complaints.<\/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-1006485","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\/1006485","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=1006485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006486,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006485\/revisions\/1006486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}