{"id":1028699,"date":"2026-08-14T07:20:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028699"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:26:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:56:03","slug":"pesky-call-complaints-rise-steadily-since-2022-over-82-against-unregistered-telemarketers-governments-tells-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/14\/pesky-call-complaints-rise-steadily-since-2022-over-82-against-unregistered-telemarketers-governments-tells-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Pesky call complaints rise steadily since 2022, over 82% against unregistered telemarketers, Governments tells Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grievances against pesky calls and messages have been rising year-on-year since 2022, with more than 82% of complaints filed against unregistered telemarketers, Parliament was informed on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Data shared by Minister of State for Telecom Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha showed that the first half of 2026 has already recorded over 20.75 lakh complaints, more than two-thirds of the total grievances received against pesky callers last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grievances against pesky calls and messages have been rising year-on-year since 2022, with more than 82% of complaints filed against unregistered telemarketers, Parliament was informed on Thursday. Data shared by Minister of State for Telecom Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha showed that the first half of 2026 has already recorded over 20.75 lakh complaints, more than two-thirds of the total grievances received against pesky callers last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028726,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028699\/revisions\/1028726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}