Signing on for DND service no deterrent to pesky calls : Survey

At a time when the government is looking at ways to curb the menace of spam calls, nine in 10 subscribers complain of getting pesky or unwanted calls for brand promotions or sales despite registering on the Do Not Disturb (DND) service by their respective operators.

A survey by community social media platform LocalCircles shows that the DND service is ineffective in the sense that the subscribers receive unwanted calls from personal mobile numbers and not landline numbers or commercial numbers belonging to a particular brand, resulting in by-passing of the entire DND system.