Spam complaints cross 2.2 million in 2025; Airtel, Jio top list
New Delhi: Complaints about spam marketing calls and messages rose to 2.5 million in 2025, from around 850,000 in 2021, according to data tabled in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), with 1.17 million complaints against Bharti Airtel and 1.07 against Reliance Jio, the two largest telcos in the country.
The numbers suggest that spam is a persistent problem for mobile users in India across networks, although the situation could have been worse. The system now automatically blocks large volumes of unwanted communication, the government claimed.
