DND is 'farce': Netizens react as unknown numbers trouble Pritish Nandy

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ALSO READ: Unwanted promotional calls to attract hefty fines; new guidelines as early as this month Taking to X, Nandy wrote, “I’m sorry but I am no longer taking calls from unknown numbers. Almost every call I get is a marketing call, coming from different cities and even overseas, despite my DND status. I know this may inconvenience some who need my urgent attention but I am tired of this undeclared war on my privacy." Nandy's tweet garnered over 99.2k views and 151 comments.

Following this tweet, netizens started replying on the tweet, with their concerns too. Replying on the tweet, Sanjeev S, commented, "Ditto. DND itself has become fake which never works.

Phone companies must be making ill gotten money out of our inconvenience. We rued govt PSUs in service sector and imagined private enterprise would be refreshing change with professional commitment. My foot.

Now mobile, airlines, airports, healthcare, insurance, banking in almost monopolistic private hands are becoming greedy suckers while regulators who are supposed to balance the control, look the other way. They might be serving not the public but the ones who offer them licences and contracts." ALSO READ: Pesky callers have had a free run for too long. That may be about to end To this, Nandy replied, “Your number and personal information is being constantly collected, sold and resold every day.