{"id":1020489,"date":"2026-07-13T11:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020489"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:33:59","slug":"getting-calls-from-1600-or-140-series-know-the-difference-between-the-two-and-whether-you-can-block-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/13\/getting-calls-from-1600-or-140-series-know-the-difference-between-the-two-and-whether-you-can-block-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting calls from 1600 or 140 series? Know the difference between the two and whether you can block them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued a clarification on the purpose and functioning of the designated 1600 and 140 number series.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator said these two series serve completely different purposes. While 1600-series numbers are reserved for service and transaction-related communications, 140-series numbers are exclusively meant for promotional or marketing calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued a clarification on the purpose and functioning of the designated 1600 and 140 number series. The regulator said these two series serve completely different purposes. While 1600-series numbers are reserved for service and transaction-related communications, 140-series numbers are exclusively meant for promotional or marketing calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020489","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020490,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020489\/revisions\/1020490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}