{"id":1041426,"date":"2026-10-07T08:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041426"},"modified":"2026-10-07T09:06:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:36:56","slug":"explainer-how-trais-spam-flag-rule-has-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/07\/explainer-how-trais-spam-flag-rule-has-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"EXPLAINER: How Trai\u2019s spam-flag rule has changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The telecom regulator is clamping down on spammers by reducing the complaint threshold for spam calls when a number is flagged by AI. This is alongside regulating automated calls, restricting call-blocking apps, and giving consumers a formal appeal. Ojasvi Gupta explains how the new rules will work <\/p>\n<p>l  What is the new three-complaint spam rule? <\/p>\n<p>Until now, action against a sender of spam calls or text messages needed five or more unique complaints within 10 days. The amendment to the Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations, 2018, (TCCCPR), adds a faster route,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The telecom regulator is clamping down on spammers by reducing the complaint threshold for spam calls when a number is flagged by AI. This is alongside regulating automated calls, restricting call-blocking apps, and giving consumers a formal appeal. Ojasvi Gupta explains how the new rules will work l What is the new three-complaint spam rule? Until now, action against a sender of spam calls or text messages needed five or more unique complaints within 10 days. The amendment to the Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations, 2018, (TCCCPR), adds a faster route,<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041426","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=1041426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041441,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041426\/revisions\/1041441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}