India, July 7 -- Telecom service provider Bharti Airtel has reported notable progress in its efforts to protect customers in Mumbai from the growing threat of online fraud. As part of a nationwide deployment of its AI-driven fraud detection system, Airtel has safeguarded over 2.1 million users in Maharashtra within just 50 days of launching the technology.

The system, which is automatically enabled for all Airtel mobile and broadband users, scans and filters links shared via SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook, Instagram, email, and other browsers. It uses real-time threat intelligence to analyse over one billion URLs daily and is capable of blocking access to harmful websites in under 100 milliseconds.

For example, if a customer receives...