The number of registered complaints against unregistered senders or spam calls/SMSs reduced to 1.51 lakh in October, a 20 per cent drop from August, the government said on Wednesday.
This directive, issued under the Telecom Commercial Communication Customer Preference Regulations, 2018 (TCCCPR-2018), aims to curb the increasing number of spam calls, the Ministry of Communications said on Tuesday.
Meta-owned WhatsApp on Thursday said it has taken stern action on the growing menace of International scam calls in India, after the government took cognisance of the issue and announced to send a notice to the platform over the issue.
