India's Trai mandates telcos share AI spam flags on blockchain within hours
Change
India's Trai ordered all mobile operators to publish AI/ML-flagged suspected spam calling numbers to a common distributed ledger within two hours of detection and to begin action against flagged senders, with operators required to comply within 30 days of the February 27 direction.
Why it matters
The order shifts anti-spam enforcement from a complaint-driven model to immediate, cross-operator identification and outreach, making rapid detection and inter-carrier coordination an operational requirement. Operators must also verify KYC details and trigger follow-up when multiple numbers from the same sender are flagged, increasing compliance and customer-screening workloads.
Implications
- • Terminating mobile operators' AI/ML security teams must configure systems to flag suspected spam CLIs and publish those flags to the common DLT platform within two hours of detection.
- • Originating mobile operators' compliance and KYC units must contact flagged senders, verify their KYC identifiers, and map telecom resources allotted to the sender before permitting continued use.
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