Explained | Why Truecaller has lashed out against TRAI’s 140, 160 series numbers
Truecaller is in a dispute with India's Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) over directives that prevent it from displaying spam warnings for specific telemarketing and banking numbers (140 and 160 series). Despite previously cooperating on spam data, Truecaller argues TRAI's move to bar such labels on these 'authorized' numbers is problematic, especially after users blocked these numbers over 5 crore times.
On Wednesday (July 8, 2026), the caller ID firm Truecaller lashed out at directives from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) that forbade the former from showing spam warnings for phone numbers in the 140 and 160 series. Those two series were implemented last year as the designated numbers from which telemarketing and banking numbers are permitted to call users.
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