The story so far: To weed out rampant cases of fraudulently procured SIM cards being used across the country for financial and other cyber scams, the Department of Telecommunications has begun using an artificial intelligence-based facial recognition tool named ‘Artificial Intelligence and Facial Recognition powered Solution for Telecom SIM Subscriber Verification’. India is the second-largest telecom ecosystem in the world, …
About 55,000 telecom SIM subscriptions obtained fraudulently in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have been identified with the help of the Artificial Intelligence and Facial Recognition technology as part of the Sanchar Saathi initiative, according to T. Varaprasad, Deputy Director General, Department of Telecommunications. Addressing the reporters in Vijayawada, Mr. Varaprasad said that Sanchar Saathi helps citizens check mobile connections registered …
The Indian Telecommunication Bill, a draft version of which was released late last year for public comment, should ideally take its final form by July, Minister of Railways, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw told reporters on Tuesday. Fraudulent connections Mr. Vaishnaw was announcing the release of the Sanchar Saathi portal, a website that brings together initiatives the government …
