YouMail: 2,089,343,500 robocalls in 2025, 1,254,015,000 in 2026 YTD. Columbus is a recurring national top-25 city. 106,378 DNC complaints — 903 per 100,000, 6th in the FTC book, up 6.4%.
Federal floor: TCPA $500 / $1,500.
Ohio layer:
- Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act and telephone-solicitation rules; AG enforcement.
- No Florida-style private $500 mini-TCPA as the primary ticker. The per-call private engine is the TCPA.
- Ohio signed the 49-AG FCC letters and showed up on YouMail’s late-2025 “risers” list.
What changed: No 2026 mini-TCPA. Two billion estimated robocalls is the change that matters.
Left on the table: 106,378 × $500 ≈ $53.2 million. × $1,500 ≈ $159.6 million.
Register at donotcall.gov. Log the 216, 614, 513, and 937 spoofs. Report to the Ohio AG consumer protection section. Use the Ohio Playbook.
This is a Q3 2026 TeleJustice Academy quarterly law update. Figures: YouMail Robocall Index (estimated volume); 2025 DNC complaint counts and per-capita rates from the FTC Data Book cycle. “Money left on the table” is complaint count × TCPA statutory minimums — an illustration, not a prediction. Robocall indexes include legal recorded calls. Only documented illegal calls and texts support a claim. Educational only. Not legal advice. TeleJustice Academy is not a law firm. Protect the file: donotcall.gov · state list where one exists · call log with date, time, number · screenshots · your state Playbook at telejusticeacademy.com and telejusticepro.com.