COAI Advisor Urges Aadhaar Database Cleanup
Vikram Tiwathia, senior advisor at the Cellular Operators Association of India, said at the DoT South Zone Conference in Kochi on February 12, 2026, that the Aadhaar database must be cleaned because most mobile KYC relies on Aadhaar and ASTR-linked incidents involved Aadhaar misuse. He urged involving UIDAI, onboarding 250 million feature-phone users to services like Sanchar Saathi, and new regulations to curb OTT video-call fraud.
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