TELEPHONE NUMBERS

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has suggested charging for telephone numbers due to their finite nature. Despite the potential to increase capacity by adding digits, the growing use of numbers for machine communication poses a chall...

TRAI is considering implementing charges on smartphone and landline numbers, following a proposal to regulate numbering resources. TRAI views phone numbers as valuable public resources and suggests charging mobile operators, who may then pass on the...

As more businesses in sectors such as ride-hailing, food-tech, quick grocery commerce, as well as social media adopt voice calls as an option to authenticate users, it makes sense for them to differentiate themselves from fraud numbers. The departme...

The demarcation will largely benefit financial institutions such as bank to alert customers on use cases such as credit card payment reminders. Previously, subscribers had stopped receiving transactional calls assuming that a number originating from...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi filed his nomination for the Varanasi Lok Sabha elections, accompanied by NDA leaders. He disclosed his contact details in the election affidavit and declared assets. Modi emphasized the significance of voter turnout and...

India's telecom subscribers increase to 1.197 billion in February 2024, with urban and rural areas showing growth. Broadband subscriptions also rise to 916.7 million, with Reliance Jio leading. All circles see growth in wireline and wireless segment...

After a robust response for the IPO, Bharti Hexacom is likely to finalise the share allotment today. The issue was booked 86 times at close on strong interest from non-institutional investors. Investors can check the status of their share allotment ...

Modi also spoke with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and reiterated India’s people-centric approach and called for dialogue and diplomacy as the way forward. Zelenskyy appreciated India's humanitarian approach. There are reports that the...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has informed the Supreme Court that mobile phone numbers deactivated for non-usage or at the subscriber's request are not assigned to new subscribers for a minimum of 90 days. The court dismissed a pe...

Recently, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) cautioned users about not clicking on any links of Aadhaar other than the official links shared by them. This is because many times scamsters create a look-alike or phishing website and ...

Telecom operators received over 900,000 complaints in 2022 regarding unsolicited commercial communications (UCC), according to data shared in the Lok Sabha. This marks an increase from 2021, when there were around 856,000 complaints, and from 2020 (...

"People should never pick calls made from unknown numbers. I request every citizen that they should respond to calls from only (telephone/mobile) those numbers they recognise," he told reporters. He was responding to a question about spam calls and ...

Earlier, the investment in post office schemes or small savings scheme could be done with Aadhaar number. This was done by using any other official valid documents. However, from now on investment in small savings scheme will be done if PAN and Aadh...

While IDBI Bank is in the process of divestment, with the government having already invited bids for strategic sale, the completion of the same in the current fiscal year remains doubtful.

In the hope of getting multibagger returns, many new investors often place bets on loss-making companies that may stage a turnaround later on. Market experts, however, warn against such hope trades and suggest focusing on companies with high growth ...

According to the filing, BSNL will provide all telecom services in Delhi and Mumbai through leasing of operational assets or other appropriate models and MTNL will monetize its land assets to reduce its loan and other liabilities.

​​​​ Minister of State for Communications Devusinh Chauhan, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, gave data on complaints received against various telecom service providers related to mobile telephony during 2021-22, as per which the number for Air...

IWG has seen strong growth in the Indian market with on-demand membership rising 51% Y-o-Y and meeting room sales up by 95%.

Out of about 1,000 companies on BSE midcap and smallcap index, as many as 70 stocks have dropped more than 25 per cent in the current year so far, of which 20 have eroded one third of investors’ wealth in the new year so far.