India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos

india's trai has extended its anti-spam regime to require caller-id and call-management apps to share user spam reports with telecom operators. the rules, which affect apps like truecaller, aim to connect reports collected by apps with the telecom industry's enforcement infrastructure. truecaller, which has over 350 million users in india, sees this as anti-competitive, arguing it transfers valuable data to telecom operators. the change comes as india grapples with a large number of spam and fraudulent calls, with truecaller reporting 42 billion spam calls in india in 2025.