India’s Telecom Regulatory Authority has paused the rollout of a national SMS “scrubbing” service and blamed business for the delay.
The authority, aka TRAI, introduced the scrubbing service to curb text spam in India, where mobile phone users can expect a couple of unsolicited messages every day according to spam-blocking app Truecaller.
India’s solution to the scourge is a regime that requires senders of bulk messages register with carriers and TRAI, which operates a blockchain-based application that looks for unexpected messages in transit and scrubs them before they reach networks or users.
TRAI says it notified stakeholders of the application and its requirements in January 2020. But yesterday it suspended the scrubbing service after just a day of operations because legitimate text messages were being blocked.
The watchdog said the problem ..
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