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• Spam calls increase: In the first half of 2026, more than 20.75 lakh complaints of nuisance calls and messages were reported.
• 82% Complaints Against Unauthorized Telemarketers: Out of total complaints, more than 17.21 lakh complaints are against unregistered or unknown telemarketers.
• The number of complaints has been steadily increasing: after 31.09 lakh complaints were registered in 2025, nearly 70% of them were registered in the first half of 2026.

Complaints of nuisance calls and messages have been increasing every year since 2022. Surprisingly, more than 82% of complaints are filed against unregistered telemarketers. Minister of State for Telecom Pemmasani Chandrasekhar presented the statistics in the Rajya Sabha. Accordingly, more than 20.75 lakh complaints have been filed in the first half of 2026 alone. This figure is almost 70%, i.e. more than two-thirds, of the total number of complaints received in the entire previous year.

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This means that almost 70% of complaints about nuisance calls were received in the first quarter of this year compared to the entire previous year. Responding to a question from Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh, the minister said, according to data received from access providers, of the more than 2 million complaints of unwanted calls and messages received by companies between January and June 2026, more than 82%, i.e. approximately 17.21 lakh complaints, were against unregistered or unknown telemarketers. This means that out of every 100 complaints, more than 82 were from unknown numbers or companies harassing people by sending call messages without any registration. (Photo Courtesy – AI Created)

A person uses 99.8 GB of data per month

India's private telecom companies Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea have announced their results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026. Along with their revenue, the companies also revealed their users' monthly data usage. Reliance Jio customers are the highest mobile data users in India. Although Bharti Airtel ranks second in this list, it is the industry leader in terms of revenue per customer. Vodafone Idea users lag behind the two giants in terms of data usage. Combining the users of all three companies in India, each user is consuming 99.8 GB of mobile data per month.

Bharti Airtel has reported that an average user consumes 34.4 GB of mobile data per month. This translates to approximately 1.15 GB of data per day. During these three months, Airtel customers collectively used 31,062 crore GB of internet, i.e. approximately 3,106 crore GB. It also achieved the highest average revenue per customer in the industry. Airtel's total network data volume for the quarter was 31,062 crore GB.

Blacklist registered telemarketers

The minister said that action has also been taken against registered telemarketers. According to statistics, 41 registered telemarketers were blacklisted between August and December 2024, 12 in 2025 and seven by June this year.

Increase in complaints since 2022

A total of more than 31.09 lakh complaints were received in 2025. More than 12.84 lakh complaints were lodged against nuisance calls in 2021. Subsequently, the number of complaints decreased to 10.83 lakh in 2022. Complaints increased by approximately 26% to 13.62 crore in 2023, followed by a 42% increase to 19.38 crore in 2024 and a 60% increase to 31.09 crore in 2025. The number of complaints against nuisance callers has also increased.

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According to the statistics provided by the Minister, between August and December 2024, 19.21 crore telecom connections were disconnected due to nuisance callers. The number of telecom disconnections decreased to 19.4 crore in 2025 and only 79,000 telecom connections were disconnected in the first half of 2026. However, there has been a steady increase in the number of actions taken against agencies that send nuisance calls and messages.

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