Call drop is a major issue affecting Indian mobile phone users. The issue has been raised time and again, and now leading telecom operators have committed to investing over Rs 74,000 crore to address the issue in a comprehensive manner.
According to the Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan, the money will be used to upgrade and expand their infrastructure to address the issue of call drops. "Telecom operators raised issue of non-availability of sites for installing mobile towers along with some other problems. Bharti Airtel said that they have invested Rs 16,000 crore on infrastructure and will be spending another Rs 24,000 crore. Reliance Jio has said that they will invest Rs 50,000 in installing 1 lakh towers in coming fiscal," Aruna added.
Idea Cellular and Vodafone will also increase mobile towers in their network.
Aruna said: "Telcos raised the issue of illegal repeaters installed in networks (which) are creating interference and affecting call quality. We will look into enforcing rules more stringently."
The vigilance arm of the Department of Telecom (DoT) will look into issues of non-compliance raised by mobile service providers.
Source: http://cablequest.org/index.php/news/telecom-news/item/12069-telcos-earmark-rs-74,000-crore-to-address-call-drop-issue
Idea Cellular and Vodafone will also increase mobile towers in their network.
Aruna said: "Telcos raised the issue of illegal repeaters installed in networks (which) are creating interference and affecting call quality. We will look into enforcing rules more stringently."
The vigilance arm of the Department of Telecom (DoT) will look into issues of non-compliance raised by mobile service providers.
Source: http://cablequest.org/index.php/news/telecom-news/item/12069-telcos-earmark-rs-74,000-crore-to-address-call-drop-issue
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