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Have you even wondered about the continuous onslaught of unwanted commercial communication (UCC) or spam messages and unwanted calls from telemarketers? If yes, then data shared by the telecom regulator shows that there are over 230,000 entities registered as telemarketers with 11 telecom companies. However, the data shared by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) may be incomplete as the cumulative of Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel itself is nearly 275,000. It may also be possible that many entities have registered themselves with different telcos. But even in that case, the TRAI record considers it as a separate entry and this should have been added in the cumulative. Also remember, TRAI sharing this information does not mean that it will either act against some of the most notorious and dubious telemarketers or make sure that all numbers registered with do-not-call (DNC) registry will be filtered out by telemarketers. TRAI will do nothing to help telecom or mobile