{"id":1020061,"date":"2026-07-11T07:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T02:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020061"},"modified":"2026-07-11T07:55:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T02:25:45","slug":"call-management-apps-cannot-block-filter-calls-from-1600-140-series-numbers-clarifies-trai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/11\/call-management-apps-cannot-block-filter-calls-from-1600-140-series-numbers-clarifies-trai\/","title":{"rendered":"Call management apps cannot block, filter calls from 1600, 140 series numbers, clarifies TRAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Friday clarified that any tagging, blocking, or filtering of calls originating from the 1600-series and the 140-series by caller management applications is not permitted. <\/p>\n<p>It, however, noted that subscribers have the right to allow or block promotional calls originating from 140-series numbers from entities by registering their preference on the Do Not Disturb (DND) registry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Friday clarified that any tagging, blocking, or filtering of calls originating from the 1600-series and the 140-series by caller management applications is not permitted. It, however, noted that subscribers have the right to allow or block promotional calls originating from 140-series numbers from entities by registering their preference on the Do Not Disturb (DND) registry.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020061","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=1020061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020062,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020061\/revisions\/1020062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}