India: Telecoms, Mobile & Cable Communications

India’s telecom and satellite communication landscape has undergone rapid transformation in the past three to four years, demolishing old statutory frameworks and pivoting to the Government’s vision of a Digital India.

Unsolicited commercial communications—commonly experienced as spam calls and messages—have long undermined consumer trust in India's telecom ecosystem. Despite years of regulation, the problem has intensified with the emergence of AI-enabled calling technologies, including robo-calls, automated diallers and voice-cloning tools that allow impersonation at scale

India's electronics and semiconductor design and manufacturing sector is experiencing rapid transformation through evolving regulatory frameworks and strategic policy initiatives. This comprehensive white paper examines the current state of the Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) sector, analyzing implemented policies and their measurable outcomes while proposing actionable reforms to establish India as a globally competitive hub for advanced electronics and semiconductor production.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has mandated that entities in the banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) sector migrate their service and transactional calls to a dedicated "1600" numbering series by early 2026.

The Supreme Court through its judgement dated 10.03.2026 in the matter of Pannalal Bhansali v. Bharti Telecom Limited & Ors.1 held that obtaining a valuation report is not a statutory requirement...

On 27 February 2026, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) released a direction regarding institutionalisation of artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML) intelligence for detection of unsolicited commercial communication (UCC) and inter-operator sharing for regulatory action against UCC ‘senders' (Direction). The Direction builds upon a series of regulatory oversight initiatives undertaken to address UCC

Rule 7A(5) and Rule 5 (6) of The Amendment Rules authorize the Central Government to access telecom identifier-related data from TIUEs and direct suspension or deactivation of identifiers without prior notice to the user, ostensibly to curb cyber fraud

On 9 December 2025, UIDAI amended the Aadhaar Authentication and Offline Verification Rules. The changes are significant and will reshape how offline and remote Aadhaar verification...

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