{"id":1029141,"date":"2026-08-17T07:44:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029141"},"modified":"2026-08-17T07:50:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:20:37","slug":"spam-crisis-in-india-govt-data-shows-complaints-doubled-in-4-years-trai-flags-24-4bn-spam-calls-in-april-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/17\/spam-crisis-in-india-govt-data-shows-complaints-doubled-in-4-years-trai-flags-24-4bn-spam-calls-in-april-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Spam crisis in India: Govt data shows complaints doubled in 4 years, TRAI flags 24.4bn spam calls in April-June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is facing an acute spam crisis. Phone users now field up to five unwanted calls per day, and the telecom operators recently flagged a staggering 24.4 billion calls and messages during the April\u2013June quarter alone. Data shared by the government also outlines a sharp surge in unsolicited commercial communication over the past five years \u2014 going from 10.83 lakh UCC complaints to 31.09 lakh in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India had introduced special phone numbers a few years ago to help people identify genuine business calls. But the system has created confusion with Truecaller explaining in a recent report that millions were now ignoring even real bank and company calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is facing an acute spam crisis. Phone users now field up to five unwanted calls per day, and the telecom operators recently flagged a staggering 24.4 billion calls and messages during the April\u2013June quarter alone. Data shared by the government also outlines a sharp surge in unsolicited commercial communication over the past five years \u2014 going from 10.83 lakh UCC complaints to 31.09 lakh in 2025. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India had introduced special phone numbers a few years ago to help people identify genuine business calls. But the system has created confusion with Truecaller explaining in a [&hellip;]<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029141","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=1029141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029158,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029141\/revisions\/1029158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}