Tata Telecom, Reliance Communications, Aircel networks have most pesky callers

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More than 80 per cent of pesky calls in the last two years originated in networks of Aircel, Tata Teleservices and Reliance Communications, a government official said today.

As per the data compiled by government agencies for the period between September 27, 2011 and August 21, 2013, customers made 627,384 complaints against pesky calls.

"These three (TTSL, RCom, Aircel) accounted for almost 80per cent of the total (telephone) numbers against whom complaints were lodged for making UCC (Unsolicited Commercial Communications) in last two years," the official said.

The data show over 2,45,700 complaints were made against numbers of Tata Teleservices (TTSL) network. Over 1,78,000 were against RCom numbers, while over 57,000 grievances were lodged against numbers belonging to Aircel network.

Vodafone and Airtel come next in the list with over 52,000 and 40,000 complaints received against numbers on their networks.

Over 20,000 pesky calls and SMSes originated from Sistema Shyam Teleservices network, 16,667 from Idea Cellular, 6,338 against Uninor, 3,768 BSNL, 2,889 Loop Mobiles, 2,048 MTNL, 1,527 Videocon and 486 from Quadrant Televentures during the period.
 
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