A new proposal by India's telecom regulator aims to make accurate caller ID mandatory, but critics say it may be fundamentally flawed.
may not have to wonder who that “unknown” caller is for too much longer. Regulatory changes being considered might help them avoid that pesky telemarketer and the annoying call from a bank customer care executive trying to sell insurance.
“We are in the process of preparing a consultation paper,” Syed Tausif Abbas, an advisor to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, tells WIRED. “It will take maybe one month at least. Once the paper is [ready], it will be in public domain for the comments of stakeholders.” Pranesh Prakash, policy director of the Center for Internet and Society, says knowing who a number is connected to and being able to dodge spam or scam calls would in some ways be helpful. “It might be good for people to know they are talking to so and so, or the cell phone is registered under so and so’s name, [especially] if they have been subject to fraud or something like that. So it might actually be useful from that perspective,” says Prakash. But he’s not entirely sold on the idea.
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