Overview
Tanla Platforms Limited is an Indian technology company headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana. The company operates in the cloud communications and Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) sector, providing application-to-person (A2P) messaging, enterprise messaging, and related digital communication services to businesses, telecom operators, and government entities. Tanla is listed on the National Stock Exchange of India and the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Key facts
| Name | Tanla Platforms Limited |
|---|---|
| Type | Public company |
| Industry | Cloud communications, CPaaS, enterprise messaging |
| Headquarters | Hyderabad, Telangana, India |
| Country | India |
| Listings | BSE, NSE |
Background
Tanla was founded by D. Uday Kumar Reddy, who serves as the chairman and chief executive officer. The company began as a provider of telecom value-added services in India, with an early focus on SMS aggregation and mobile messaging infrastructure for telecom operators. Over time, it evolved into an enterprise communications platform serving banking, financial services, e-commerce, and government clients that rely on transactional and promotional messaging at scale.
Operations
Tanla's offerings centre on enabling businesses to communicate with end users across channels such as SMS, voice, email, and rich messaging formats including RCS (Rich Communication Services) and WhatsApp Business. The company processes a large volume of A2P messages routed through Indian mobile networks, positioning it among the significant CPaaS providers operating in the country.
Trubloq and blockchain-based messaging
Tanla developed Trubloq, a blockchain-based platform aimed at addressing regulatory requirements set by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for commercial communications. Trubloq was designed to help curb unsolicited commercial communication (UCC) and to provide consent and scrubbing functions in line with TRAI's distributed ledger technology (DLT) framework for telemarketing.
Wisely platform
The company has also marketed a private CPaaS offering branded Wisely, developed for cross-border enterprise messaging.
Corporate history
- Originated as a telecom value-added services and SMS aggregation business in India.
- Listed on Indian stock exchanges, initially under the name Tanla Solutions.
- Rebranded as Tanla Platforms Limited to reflect its shift towards a platform-based CPaaS model.
- Acquired Karix Mobile, an enterprise mobility and messaging company, expanding its enterprise client base in India.
- Launched Trubloq in association with Indian telecom operators for DLT-compliant commercial messaging.
Significance
Tanla is one of the larger India-headquartered companies in the cloud communications space, and its infrastructure handles a substantial share of enterprise SMS traffic on Indian telecom networks. Its work on blockchain-based message scrubbing is associated with the Indian regulatory effort to control spam and unsolicited commercial messaging under TRAI's framework.
Related topics
- Communications Platform as a Service
- Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
- Information technology in India
- Hyderabad
- Karix Mobile
- Rich Communication Services
- SMS gateway
References
- Wikidata: Q7669310
- Filings and disclosures of Tanla Platforms Limited with BSE and NSE.
- Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, regulations on commercial communications and DLT framework.