Apple faces iPhone ban in India over government-mandated anti-spam app

guest · Jul 20, 2018

Apple faces iPhone ban in India over government-mandated anti-spam app
July 20, 2018
https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/20/...india-over-government-mandated-anti-spam-app/

Now India’s government is giving Apple and its carrier partners a January 2019 deadline for compliance with a new anti-spam regulation, or else iPhones will be blocked from the country’s cellular networks.

As India Today reports, Indian telecom regulatory agency TRAI has spent years dealing with smartphone spam complaints, going so far as to self-develop an app called Do Not Disturb (DND) to stop spammers. [...] Apple has refused to allow it into the iOS App Store on privacy grounds, as it accesses a user’s call and message records.

Now TRAI is requiring that all Indian telecom companies enable all smartphone users in the country to install the latest version of DND, called DND 2.0, on their Android or iPhone devices.

Indian customers are said to receive a daily average of between five and ten spam calls and as many messages. If Android users have access to the DND app and iPhone users do not, Apple might inadvertently be giving spammers the upper hand with its users, undermining the “premium experience” generally marketed for its devices.
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