truecaller

  1. Luis

    Truecaller launches travel e-SIM product in South Africa

    Truecaller launches travel e-SIM product in South Africa Contact verification platform Truecaller has launched a travel e-SIM service in South Africa, now available to locals via the Truecaller iPhone app or on the company's website. The fully digital service lets travellers in South Africa...
  2. Hanno Labuschagne

    Truecaller's plan to tackle spam calls in SA

    Truecaller's plan to tackle spam calls in SA Truecaller is positioning itself as a shield for South Africans against spam calls, which the call-screening app has observed surging in the country in early 2026. Speaking to Newzroom Afrika, Truecaller's director for market development Mmathebe...
  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    Truecaller's share price plunges with sinking ad revenue

    Truecaller's share price plunges with sinking ad revenue This year’s selloff in Swedish caller-ID platform Truecaller AB accelerated markedly on Monday, on signs the firm’s ad revenues remain mired in the doldrums. Shares in the Stockholm-based company, whose software enables users to identify...
  4. Hanno Labuschagne

    How Truecaller can balance business rights and protect people against spammers

    How Truecaller can balance business rights and protect people against spammers Call screening apps that allow companies to pay for "whitelisting" are benefiting the wealthiest and most aggressive marketers, not those with legitimate rights to contact customers. That is according to Coega...
  5. Sapphiron

    What do you do when you receive a phone call from a business number?

    Hi Mybroadband Clients are telling us that their phone numbers are being ignored by their clients, and they want a different number. We are trying to establish what people's attitudes are to phone calls in general and what the best way is to reach people for legitimate busieness. I am trying...
  6. Jan

    Truecaller working on WhatsApp integration

    Truecaller coming to WhatsApp Truecaller will soon integrate its caller identification service into WhatsApp and other messaging apps to help users spot spam calls on such platforms, Reuters reports. While the feature is still in a beta testing phase, Truecaller CEO Alan Mamedi said it would...
  7. spamsam

    lol, how did BusinessTech only realise now that TrueCaller isn't POPI compliant?

    The link below serves: https://businesstech.co.za/news/lifestyle/649601/major-red-flags-over-the-use-of-spam-blockers-like-truecaller-in-south-africa/ It's kinda funny that most people still don't know that whoever has TrueCaller on their phone is sharing their contacts' info across the border...
  8. Jan

    Android call recording apps to be banned from Google Play Store

    Google banning call recording apps from Play Store Google has announced a new policy for developers banning them from offering call recording in apps published on its Play Store. The new policy was initially announced on 6 April 2022 and was picked up by Reddit user NLL-APPS two days ago.
  9. J

    Truecaller breaks South Africa's new data privacy laws - Legal experts

    Truecaller breaks South Africa's new data privacy laws - Legal experts Popular call screening app Truecaller could be in violation of South Africa's incoming Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), according to two law firms who recently spoke to MyBroadband. Many South Africans may be...
  10. gideonel

    Blocking 15 digit numgers

    Hi guys, I would appreciate some help if someone out there has the hidden knowledge. At work I have received a mobile phone which was used previously by another employee who has since left. The problem is that the employee has registered this number all over the world and back again. I receive...
  11. Lotster

    TrueCaller "courier company" ?

    Hi I got a call last week Thursday evening from some courier company (I couldn't hear the name, the line was very bad), supposedly with a laptop that was to be delivered to me in 5 days. But it all sounds very suspicious; I'm not expecting a laptop (though I won't say no if it turns out to be...
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