{"id":1020509,"date":"2026-07-13T11:16:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020509"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:46:52","slug":"telecom-regulator-says-calls-from-these-number-series-cannot-be-blocked-or-filtered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/13\/telecom-regulator-says-calls-from-these-number-series-cannot-be-blocked-or-filtered\/","title":{"rendered":"Telecom regulator says calls from these number series cannot be blocked or filtered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has clarified that phone calls originating from the 1600 and 140 number series cannot be tagged, filtered or blocked by third-party apps, except where blocking is carried out through the regulator&#8217;s Do Not Disturb (DND) registry for eligible promotional calls.<\/p>\n<p>According to a PTI report, the regulator has issued a statement announcing that calls from the 1600 number series are reserved for service and transaction-related communications from regulated entities and government departments, while the 140 series is designated for promotional calls made by registered telemarketers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has clarified that phone calls originating from the 1600 and 140 number series cannot be tagged, filtered or blocked by third-party apps, except where blocking is carried out through the regulator&#8217;s Do Not Disturb (DND) registry for eligible promotional calls. According to a PTI report, the regulator has issued a statement announcing that calls from the 1600 number series are reserved for service and transaction-related communications from regulated entities and government departments, while the 140 series is designated for promotional calls made by registered telemarketers.<\/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":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020509","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=1020509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020510,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020509\/revisions\/1020510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}