{"id":1020503,"date":"2026-07-13T11:12:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020503"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:42:30","slug":"truecaller-weighs-legal-options-over-trais-spam-labelling-directive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/13\/truecaller-weighs-legal-options-over-trais-spam-labelling-directive\/","title":{"rendered":"Truecaller weighs legal options over Trai\u2019s spam-labelling directive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Caller identification platform Truecaller may legally challenge the telecom regulator\u2019s directive barring it from labelling calls from the 140 and 1600 series as spam, arguing that the restriction undermines consumer protection by preventing users from being warned about numbers they have repeatedly flagged as spam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they (regulator) tell us to do things that we believe are anti-consumer, we will definitely challenge,\u201d Truecaller chief executive officer Rishit Jhunjhunwala told Mint in an interview on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Caller identification platform Truecaller may legally challenge the telecom regulator\u2019s directive barring it from labelling calls from the 140 and 1600 series as spam, arguing that the restriction undermines consumer protection by preventing users from being warned about numbers they have repeatedly flagged as spam. \u201cIf they (regulator) tell us to do things that we believe are anti-consumer, we will definitely challenge,\u201d Truecaller chief executive officer Rishit Jhunjhunwala told Mint in an interview on Friday.<\/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-1020503","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\/1020503","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=1020503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020504,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020503\/revisions\/1020504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}