Spam Callers Will Be Fined Rs 7 Lakh Per Call With New US Law, When Will India Do The Same?
The US Congress has approved a landmark bill that puts a stop on illegal robocalls from companies. The bill will be soon signed by the President in the coming weeks for it to be turned into a law.
During a busy day or even a lazy one, the last thing you want to do is answer a phone call from an unknown number. And in case that call is the irritating spam call -- it's the absolute worst. Mere recording being played after receiving the call, how annoying that is! However, looks like this robocall issue in the US will soon be a thing of the past.
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The US Congress has approved a landmark bill that puts a stop on illegal robocalls from companies. The bill will be soon signed by the US President in the coming weeks for it to be turned into a law.
Under the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act, short for the TRACED Act, the Federal Communications Commission could fine robocallers up to $10,000 (Rs 70 lakhs) per call.
The law also asks for major carriers in the US to install technology dubbed STIR/SHAKEN within their networks to easily trace the number and let the user know if its genuine or just a robocaller. While this is definitely cool that illegal annoying robocallers would no longer be functioning in the US, we can¡¯t wait for a rule like this to come to India.
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India does have its own kind of robocaller blocking through the DND initiative where you can call your telecom operator to add you on the DND list, thus filtering these annoying calls. However, sometimes this too isn¡¯t enough and robocallers and up connecting to our phone. While India still doesn¡¯t have a hefty penalty for spam callers yet (which we really wish TRAI could get soon), they have another trick up their sleeve to block spam calls.
Recently TRAI has released DND 2.0 app on Android where users can sign up their numbers to be put on the DND list. Moreover, they also have the ability to report a specific spam SMS or call right through the app for the government to nail it down.
