Politics · Italy · 13 hrs ago
Italy fines two companies about €830,000 over telemarketing numbers
Italy’s communications regulator, Agcom, fined Retelit Digital Services €700,000 and Tekmind €122,500.
The fines concern the use of phone numbers for sales and marketing calls.
Agcom began its checks in November 2025 after receiving numerous complaints.
It said the companies failed to carry out required checks on numbers used by call centres.
Those checks include looking for spoofing, which means falsifying the caller’s identity.
Agcom said anti-spoofing filters blocked more than 190 million illegal calls in their first eight months.
The regulator did not state what further steps, if any, will follow.
Italy’s communications regulator fined Retelit Digital Services and Tekmind a total of €822,500 over the use of numbers for teleselling and telemarketing.
Retelit Digital Services was fined €700,000 and Tekmind €122,500.
Agcom said the alleged violations involved failing to check that call centres used numbers correctly, including numbers generated through spoofing.
The regulator said its monitoring began in November 2025 after numerous reports.
Agcom said anti-spoofing filters blocked more than 190 million illicit calls in the first eight months.
- Who
- Italy’s communications regulator Agcom fined Retelit Digital Services and Tekmind.
- What
- The companies were fined for alleged failures to apply measures for checking numbers used in teleselling and telemarketing.
- When
- The monitoring began in November 2025. Agcom announced the fines on 12 October 2026.
- Where
- Italy.
- Why
- Agcom said the alleged violations involved failing to check the correctness of numbers used by call centres, including numbers generated through spoofing.
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Agcom began monitoring the proper use of numbers for teleselling and telemarketing after numerous reports.
Agcom announced fines of €700,000 for Retelit Digital Services and €122,500 for Tekmind.
- Retelit Digital Services fine
- €700,000
- Tekmind fine
- €122,500
- Total fines
- €822,500
- Monitoring began
- November 2025
- Calls blocked
- More than 190 million illicit calls in the first eight months with anti-spoofing filters
What people are saying
the failure to implement the measures established by the Authority, consisting of checking the correctness of the numbers used by call centres, including the generation of numbers through the technique of spoofing
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