The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) issued an order essentially halting the Doosra app’s operations completely. Doosra sells secondary mobile numbers to users to hand out at shops or online, where providing a number is mandatory, but may leave people open to spam messages or calls. The firm requires users to provide ID to buy a number, just like a conventional telecom firm would.
The ‘virtual mobile number’ app’s founder, Aditya Vuchi, has described the app as useful for customers who are forced to hand over a phone number for making a purchase, or for women who don’t want to hand out contact information to strangers.
Virtual mobile numbers are used by firms like Amazon and Uber, when delivery agents or drivers call customers. Doosra’s product is a virtual SMS inbox that filters out spam messages, while only allowing some incoming calls.
