Spam calls remain a major threat

HYDERABAD: Department of Telecommunications’ Special Director General (Telecom) Prashanth R Patil said that around 60% of Indians receive at least three spam calls a day, compared to the daily global average of 105 spam calls.

Explaining the issue of illegally procured SIM cards used by criminals across the country, he said that the department analysed 134 crore mobile connections and detected 79.42 lakh fraudulent SIMs. Following re-verification, 73.14 lakh of these SIMs were disconnected and 70,895 connections were blacklisted.