Telecom regulator plans to implement caller id feature to curb spam calls issues

[minuteman]

Telecom regulator plans to implement caller id feature to curb spam calls issues

The Telecom regulator will soon start consultation on framing a mechanism for the caller's KYC-based name to flash on phone screens when someone calls

www.livemint.com

https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/coming-soon-callers-name-as-per-kyc-record-to-flash-on-phone-screen/2532749/

 

[Navjot Singh]

This is going to solve nothing.

 

[ishanjain28]

^^ Trademark of anything cert-in, uidai et all ever come up with.

 

[Sushubh]

heh. reddit just made me realize that this is incredibly stupid. not everyone has the sim card in their own names. my name is on sims used by parents. so they would need to do a kyc for individual sims to get it to work if they ever get Apple and google to cooperate with this.

 

[manu1991]

Terrible idea. Why should someone be forced to give out their name just to call someone.

 

[mikrotik]

if they ever get Apple and google to cooperate with this.

I think the support for caller ID is already baked into both the OSes.

 

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[pillaicha]

I think they'd implement it in such a way that you'd get the name of the caller and callee simultaneously. Say I dial an outgoing number and the phone fetches the name of the called person, if it's a number not in my contacts list.

And forcing Google or Apple isn't hard really. They've done it before and they'll easily do it again. It's a country specific feature and not universal.

 

[Jonas]

Rather they could make it mandatory for call centres and businesses to do KYC and add a caller ID on their numbers and also put some mechanism in place to identify bulk callers and put a cap on their usage until they register themselves as businesses.

They don’t really want to solve this problem.

 

[Yatch]

The best option is using Truecaller as primary calling app on android phones. You can block all known spammers.

 

[Jonas]

I don’t want a spyware on my phone.

But I also don’t want somebody to wake me up at 8.30 am on a Sunday morning to buy plots in Faridabad.

 

[vikram_ch]

Finally there will be no use of this application(Truecaller)

 

[mhsabir]

I don’t want a spyware on my phone.

But I also don’t want somebody to wake me up at 8.30 am on a Sunday morning to buy plots in Faridabad.

What if the deal is really good 😜

 

[Jonas]

I’m not somebody who cusses, but one morning, I was driving from Delhi to Gurgaon and a sales agent wouldn’t understand that I’m not interested in a new CC. His rebuttals and objection handling got so terrible, he summoned the Delhiite in me which I didn’t know existed.

 

[SVK]

We don't see Trai's proposed KYC-based caller ID mechanism as competitive service: Truecaller CEO

The statement by Truecaller CEO and co-founder Alan Mamedi assumes significance as sector regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is soon set to start consultation on framing a mechanism for caller's KYC-based name to flash on phone screens when someone calls.

economictimes.indiatimes.com

 

[Navjot Singh]

No More Unknown Calls? TRAI To Implement Major KYC-Based Reform | DETAILS HERE

Once this move is implemented, a (call) receiver will be able to see the name of the caller as per the latter's KYC record submitted to the telecom operator, even if the caller's name is not saved on his/her phone.

www.india.com

If everything goes fine, this nightmare app will be out in 3 weeks.