Russians began to connect spam blockers more often

Citizens have become more active in connecting themselves to a service for identifying and blocking unwanted calls or installing special software on smartphones. Representatives of Tinkoff Bank, Yandex, telecom operators MegaFon, MTS, Tele2, as well as companies in the field of information security (IS) Kaspersky Lab, RTK-Solar told Vedomosti about the multiple growth of installations of such services. , Infosecurity (part of Softline Group).

In MegaFon, since December 2022, the number of subscribers who have activated the service for identifying spam calls has grown from 1 million to 6.5 million, says a representative of the operator. The total user base of Tinkoff services (caller and secretary Oleg) is 6.5 million people, a bank representative said. In July, Tinkoff saw a peak in demand for such services: 2 times more customers connected the identifier than on average in the previous months of 2023. A third of all identifier users connected the service this year, a bank representative says. The number of downloads of the Kaspersky Who Calls application from Google Play increased from 1 million to 5 million over the year.