You Might Still Get Unsolicited Phone Calls While On DND, New Survey Data Suggests

A recent survey has highlighted the magnitude of unwarranted calls directed at mobile phone subscribers in India.?

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According to data collected by LocalCircles, most mobile subscribers in India get at least one irksome call every day and 92 per cent receive unsolicited calls even after being on the 'Do Not Disturb' list.?

Majority calls from financial services, real estate sectors

Further, 78 per cent of respondents said they get the highest number of pesky calls from the financial services and real estate sectors.?

"Of the total 11,157 mobile subscribers who responded to this question 66 per cent shared that they get 3 or more such phone calls on average every day.?

In fact, 96 per cent of mobile subscribers indicated that they receive at least one such call every day," as per the survey released on Monday.?

Also, 16 per cent of respondents said they get 6-10 calls on average daily, while 5 per cent got over 10 unsolicited calls daily.?

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Survey got 56,000 responses from 342 districts??

The online survey, conducted between January 5 and February 5, received over 56,000 responses from citizens in 342 districts.?

The number of responses to each question varied.To a question on whether they got pesky calls even after being registered in the "Do Not Disturb" list, 92 per cent out of 15,040 respondents replied in the affirmative.?

Out of 15,186 respondents, 78 per cent of mobile subscribers said the maximum number of unwanted calls they received were from the financial services and real estate sectors.

50% respondents got calls from different numbers

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Asked about the source of the calls, 50 per cent out of the 15,312 respondents said they get pesky calls from different mobile phone numbers that seem to belong to individuals, 29 per cent said from mobile numbers that seem to belong to companies or brands and 14 per cent feel it is from a centralised landline number.?

"Citizens employed in the financial services, real estate and other service industries shared insights about those in sales and marketing in their organisations hiring third-party agencies for lead generation.?As per the information shared, these contracted agencies have staff who use their personal mobile numbers from their offices or home to make such calls," the report said.

(With inputs from PTI)

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