DoT disconnects 56.02 lakh suspected mobile connections

NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecommunication (DoT) has disconnected over 56.02 lakh suspected mobile connections that failed to re-verify.

According to the DoT’s monthly report, as of December 2023, 66.98 lakh such mobile connections were detected by DoT’s Artificial Intelligence and Facial Recognition powered solution – ASTR, out of which 56.02 lakh were disconnected. It also blacklisted 70,313 Point of Sale (PoS)’s selling SIMs on fake/forged documents, and 365 FIRs were registered across the country.