{"id":1022294,"date":"2026-07-20T09:15:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T03:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022294"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:24:25","slug":"show-dnd-choice-to-users-not-frequently-blocked-label-trai-on-dedicated-series-row-with-truecaller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/20\/show-dnd-choice-to-users-not-frequently-blocked-label-trai-on-dedicated-series-row-with-truecaller\/","title":{"rendered":"Show DND choice to users, not \u2018frequently blocked\u2019 label: TRAI on dedicated series row with Truecaller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRAI has objections to Truecaller displaying a \u2018frequently blocked\u2019 badge within the dedicated number series, with a senior regulatory official saying that such tagging is \u201cnot advisable\u201d as it tends to misguide and confuse telecom consumers, creating unwarranted suspicion about calls from 1600 and 140 categories that otherwise fall under the regulated framework. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, the regulator believes that Truecaller should display a label informing users that they can \u201cexercise their choice\u201d to block unwanted communication from the 140 series through TRAI\u2019s official Do Not Disturb (DND) preference management app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRAI has objections to Truecaller displaying a \u2018frequently blocked\u2019 badge within the dedicated number series, with a senior regulatory official saying that such tagging is \u201cnot advisable\u201d as it tends to misguide and confuse telecom consumers, creating unwarranted suspicion about calls from 1600 and 140 categories that otherwise fall under the regulated framework. Instead, the regulator believes that Truecaller should display a label informing users that they can \u201cexercise their choice\u201d to block unwanted communication from the 140 series through TRAI\u2019s official Do Not Disturb (DND) preference management app.<\/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":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022294","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=1022294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022337,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022294\/revisions\/1022337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}