In the first half of 2023, Russians received at least 3.8 billion spam calls; this is 2.15 times more than the result for the same period last year. In this respect informs publication “Business Petersburg”, which refers to the data of the mobile operator MTS.
MegaFon also recorded an increase in the number of spam calls. According to this operator, their numbers increased by 40% compared to the previous year. Tele2 noted that a subscriber receives an average of eight to nine advertising calls each month.
MTS also states that spam calls are mostly sent to Moscow and St. He added that it was received by subscribers in St. Petersburg. It is followed by Krasnodar, Ufa, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan and Samara.
Operators noted that they are using big data technology to combat spam calls. With its help, the company’s services identify spam calls by duration, frequency, aggregate character and user response to them.
“Tele2 processes around 5-6 million calls per day using big data, including reset calls,” one of the operators said.
Paid distribution of the Internet earlier than smartphones attractive Attention FAS.