{"id":1028015,"date":"2026-08-11T09:35:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T04:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028015"},"modified":"2026-08-11T10:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:00:01","slug":"trai-rolls-out-1601-series-for-utility-courier-service-calls-to-curb-fraud-migration-in-90-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/11\/trai-rolls-out-1601-series-for-utility-courier-service-calls-to-curb-fraud-migration-in-90-days\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAI rolls out &#8216;1601&#8217; series for utility, courier service calls to curb fraud; migration in 90 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], August 10 (ANI): The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has initiated the phase-wise rollout of a new &#8216;1601&#8217; number series for service and transactional calls by utility, courier and logistics companies, aimed at helping consumers identify legitimate business calls and curb impersonation fraud. <\/p>\n<p>Under the first phase, electricity distribution companies, water utilities, city gas distributors, LPG distribution entities and other utility providers will be covered. Courier companies, express logistics firms, parcel delivery providers and freight and logistics service providers will also come under the new numbering framework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], August 10 (ANI): The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has initiated the phase-wise rollout of a new &#8216;1601&#8217; number series for service and transactional calls by utility, courier and logistics companies, aimed at helping consumers identify legitimate business calls and curb impersonation fraud. Under the first phase, electricity distribution companies, water utilities, city gas distributors, LPG distribution entities and other utility providers will be covered. Courier companies, express logistics firms, parcel delivery providers and freight and logistics service providers will also come under the new numbering framework.<\/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-1028015","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\/1028015","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=1028015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028023,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028015\/revisions\/1028023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}