Switzerland logs 148 million unwanted phone calls

Published on October 3, 2026

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So far this year, Swiss telephone operators have already taken action on more than 148 million unwanted calls. Such abuse tends to increase further towards the end of the year. Swisscom has recorded 102 million calls involving ‘spoofing’ (telephone number spoofing) or spam, the operator told the Keystone-ATS news agency. Of these, 65 million were blocked and 30 million anonymised. A warning was displayed for a further seven million calls. On Thursday, Sunrise stated in a press release that it had blocked, anonymised or flagged more than 46 million calls between January and August. This is around a fifth more than last year. Salt is also rolling out a mechanism to combat unwanted calls. This blocks, on average, around two in five incoming calls. In particular, operators are combating ‘spoofing’, a technique that involves displaying a fake or manipulated telephone number. Since the start of the year, calls from abroad displaying a potentially falsified Swiss number must either be ... Full story here Are you the author?

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