Telcos to filter unregistered businesses, SMS templates to control spam messages: Report
Entities with unique header IDs on the telcos’ distributor ledger technology platform have time till January 31 to submit templates of all possible content they wish to send customers January 21, 2021 / 04:04 PM IST
Telecom companies will start filtering commercial SMSes with unregistered content from January 31, 2021 in a bid to check flow of spam messages.
Thus, entities with unique header IDs (e.g. AX-TITAN) on the telcos’ distributor ledger technology (DLT) platform have time till January 31 to submit templates of all possible content they wish to send customers, The Economic Times reported.
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ET had reported in November that the telecom regulator had imposed penalties collectively amounting to Rs 35 crore on eight operators including Bharti Airtel, Voda-Idea, Jio and BSNL for violation of TCCCPR on various counts, which allowed cyber criminals to issue fake SMSes.
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In September 2020, telecom companies launched the first phase and started blocking SMS traffic originating from unregistered headers.
New Delhi: Beginning January 31, mobile phone companies will filter out commercial SMSes with unregistered content, as part of the second phase of blockchain implementation designed to check the flow of spam text messages.
This means any entity registered on the distributor ledger technology (DLT) platform with a unique header ID, for example AX-DOMINOS, will have to submit content templates of all SMSes they wish to deliver to their customers till January 31. From then on, telecom companies will block any SMS originating from an unregistered header