oh it does. The law is pretty clear. Here in India, I, the recipient of a call, decide what is unsolicited telemarketing.
Whether a company has/had a commercial relationship with me is irrelevant, especially in a case like the OP provides, where I have not given the company my phone number and the caller got it through some sneaky data mining. If it is an unsolicited call, and the recipient feels it is spam, register a complaint and the caller gets punished.
Pretty good policy imo, keeps such nasty shenanigans down.
Whether a company has/had a commercial relationship with me is irrelevant, especially in a case like the OP provides, where I have not given the company my phone number and the caller got it through some sneaky data mining. If it is an unsolicited call, and the recipient feels it is spam, register a complaint and the caller gets punished.
Pretty good policy imo, keeps such nasty shenanigans down.