India, April 29 -- Talking on the need to address Spam calls and messages. Lt Gen Dr S P Kochhar, Director General, COAI said, "COAI welcomes the decision of MeitY to take the lead to engage with stakeholders to tackle spam and scam from Over-The-Top (OTT) platforms, as conveyed during the meeting of the Joint Committee of Regulators (JCoR). This action by MeitY, apparently recognizes the trend of the nuisance of Spam and Scam calls increasingly shifting to the OTT platforms, especially with the robust measures being undertaken for Unsolicited Commercial Communications (UCC) by DoT along with the Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) over the telecom networks."

He continued, "the Government has now given indication that applications running o...