{"id":975305,"date":"2025-11-20T09:47:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=975305"},"modified":"2025-11-20T10:18:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:48:57","slug":"trai-sets-deadlines-for-bfsi-shift-to-1600-calling-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/20\/trai-sets-deadlines-for-bfsi-shift-to-1600-calling-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Trai sets deadlines for BFSI shift to 1600 calling series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Wednesday set firm deadlines for the banking and financial services industry to adopt the dedicated \u20181600\u2019 numbering series for service and transactional calls. The move aims to curb the surge in impersonation-based financial frauds carried out through deceptive voice calls. With the transition, customers will be able to instantly recognise calls from regulated financial institutions, helping them distinguish genuine interactions from scams disguised as official banking communication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Wednesday set firm deadlines for the banking and financial services industry to adopt the dedicated \u20181600\u2019 numbering series for service and transactional calls. The move aims to curb the surge in impersonation-based financial frauds carried out through deceptive voice calls. With the transition, customers will be able to instantly recognise calls from regulated financial institutions, helping them distinguish genuine interactions from scams disguised as official banking communication.<\/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-975305","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\/975305","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=975305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}