{"id":991478,"date":"2026-02-12T08:20:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991478"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:31:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:01:49","slug":"bharti-airtel-flags-71-billion-spam-calls-2-9-billion-messages-since-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/12\/bharti-airtel-flags-71-billion-spam-calls-2-9-billion-messages-since-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel flags 71 billion spam calls, 2.9 billion messages since 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel said it has flagged over 71 billion calls and 2.9 billion text messages as spam as of January 2026, since the launch of its AI-based spam filter for users in 2024. <\/p>\n<p>The telco has also blocked over 800,000 fraudulent links across the network and over-the-top messaging apps such as WhatsApp. As a result, Airtel users have seen a 70% fall in incidence of scams as compared to other networks, said Rahul Vatts, chief regulatory officer, Bharti Airtel, citing data from the home ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel said it has flagged over 71 billion calls and 2.9 billion text messages as spam as of January 2026, since the launch of its AI-based spam filter for users in 2024. The telco has also blocked over 800,000 fraudulent links across the network and over-the-top messaging apps such as WhatsApp. As a result, Airtel users have seen a 70% fall in incidence of scams as compared to other networks, said Rahul Vatts, chief regulatory officer, Bharti Airtel, citing data from the home ministry.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991478","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=991478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}