{"id":1028837,"date":"2026-08-15T07:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028837"},"modified":"2026-08-15T07:58:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:28:32","slug":"pesky-call-complaints-see-record-rise-year-on-year-pemmasani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/15\/pesky-call-complaints-see-record-rise-year-on-year-pemmasani\/","title":{"rendered":"Pesky call complaints see record rise year-on-year: Pemmasani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Grievances against pesky calls and messages have been rising year-on-year since 2022, with more than 82% of complaints being filed against unregistered telemarketers, Parliament was informed on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Data shared by Minister of State for Telecom Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar as part of a written reply to the Rajya Sabha showed that the first half of 2026 has already recorded over 20.75 complaints, which was more than two-third of total grievances received against pesky callers last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Grievances against pesky calls and messages have been rising year-on-year since 2022, with more than 82% of complaints being filed against unregistered telemarketers, Parliament was informed on Thursday. Data shared by Minister of State for Telecom Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar as part of a written reply to the Rajya Sabha showed that the first half of 2026 has already recorded over 20.75 complaints, which was more than two-third of 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-1028837","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\/1028837","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=1028837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028849,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028837\/revisions\/1028849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}