Network operators are not doing enough to prevent spam calls, texts

Millions of fake calls and tens of thousand of subscribers in the last five months were handled, but network operators do not appear to be sufficiently determined to fight against spam calls. The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has recently taken a series of moves to deal with different types of 'telecom waste', including spam messages, spam calls and spam e-mails. In November 2020 alone, 20,235 subscribers delivering spam calls were prevented It acts as the advisor to the government on Decree 15 on penalties for violations of regulations on postal services, telecommunication, radio frequencies, information technology and electronic transactions, and on Decree 91 on fighting spam messages, spam emails and spam calls. The documents set an important legal framework which creates sanctions to radically handle telecommunications waste. Since July, the Authority of Telecommunications has been urging mobile network operators to use technical measures to prevent spam and spam calls. The agency reported that in November 2020 alone, 20,235 subscribers delivering spam calls were prevented. From July to the end of November, 72,539 subscribers were blocked because they had spread spam calls. All the subscribers spreading spam have their incoming calls from other networks blocked and outgoing calls to… Read full this story

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