Telecommunication
- India
Centre cracks down on spoofed international calls, telcos block over 20 carriers
New Delhi: An indigenously-developed system to identify and block international spoofed calls that display Indian mobile numbers has significantly brought down such calls to about 4 lakh per day, the government has…
- Middle East
UAE to impose up to Rs 34 lakh fine for cold callers
Abu Dhabi: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TRA) has imposed administrative penalties of up to Dirham 150,000 (Rs 34,11,049) on persistent cold callers. This comes as…
- Middle East
Rafah crossing opens for 1st time since Israel-Hamas war; death toll at 10461
As the ground operations by the Israeli army intensify in Gaza, the Rafah crossing to Egypt has opened for the first time since the war began on October 7. Qatar has brokered…
- Middle East
UAE’s telecom authority denies rumours of global internet disruption on Oct 11
United Arab Emirates (UAE’s) Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) has denied rumours about a “possible worldwide internet service interruption” on October 11 and termed the news ‘a hoax’. There were some…
