NEW DELHI: Leading telecom operators, together with Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio, have committed to making an investment over Rs 74,000 crore to improve and enlarge their infrastructure to handle the issue of name drops, Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan said lately.
"Telecom operators raised issue of non-availability of sites for putting in mobile towers along with some other issues.
"Bharti Airtel said that they have invested Rs 16,000 crore on infrastructure and will probably be spending another Rs 24,000 crore. Reliance Jio has said that they're going to make investments Rs 50,000 in putting in 1 lakh towers in coming fiscal," Sundararajan instructed journalists after meeting senior officials of telecom companies.
Idea Cellular and Vodafone additionally committed to increasing mobile towers in their community.
She said telecom operators introduced their research of name drops which showed that it has stabilised however different issues like fading of voice name have larger due to more than a few issues, together with some mobile phones now not complying with required certification norms.
"Telecom operators said that call drop drawback in mobile phones without Global Conformity Framework certificate is more compared to the certified gadgets.
"They 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," Sundararajan said.
The vigilance arm of the Department of Telecom (DoT) will glance into issues of non-compliance raised via mobile provider providers.
"Besides, telecom operators said that there is new unique phenomenon they have found in India where around 400 callers use a mobile tower during same time whereas in countries like China and others this average is in the range of 200-300. They are now discussing with equipment makers to handle this kind of issue," Sundararajan said.
Telecom operators said data utilization has grown 6-7 times and continues to grow 20-25 in line with cent every month however they have been shocked to look two-times expansion in voice traffic which has building up load on networks.
"Telecom operators said they are scaling up investment in infrastructure to cater to growth in the traffic," she said.
Today's meeting comes at a time when Trai's new and more stringent name drop laws have come into drive. In fact, the quarter ended December will mark the first instance of reporting underneath the new system.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has already asked the operators to publish their network-related data for checking provider high quality underneath the new benchmarks.
Over the closing two years, mobile provider high quality has remained a burning issue, irking consumers. In 2016, the regulator had even ordered operators to compensate customers for name drops (Re 1 for every name dropped) however the missive was struck down via the Supreme Court.
The DoT had, in a series of meeting over the previous few quarters, asked telecom firms to undertake fast measures to make stronger name high quality together with putting in place additional mobile towers around the country.
"Telecom operators raised issue of non-availability of sites for putting in mobile towers along with some other issues.
"Bharti Airtel said that they have invested Rs 16,000 crore on infrastructure and will probably be spending another Rs 24,000 crore. Reliance Jio has said that they're going to make investments Rs 50,000 in putting in 1 lakh towers in coming fiscal," Sundararajan instructed journalists after meeting senior officials of telecom companies.
Idea Cellular and Vodafone additionally committed to increasing mobile towers in their community.
She said telecom operators introduced their research of name drops which showed that it has stabilised however different issues like fading of voice name have larger due to more than a few issues, together with some mobile phones now not complying with required certification norms.
"Telecom operators said that call drop drawback in mobile phones without Global Conformity Framework certificate is more compared to the certified gadgets.
"They 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," Sundararajan said.
The vigilance arm of the Department of Telecom (DoT) will glance into issues of non-compliance raised via mobile provider providers.
"Besides, telecom operators said that there is new unique phenomenon they have found in India where around 400 callers use a mobile tower during same time whereas in countries like China and others this average is in the range of 200-300. They are now discussing with equipment makers to handle this kind of issue," Sundararajan said.
Telecom operators said data utilization has grown 6-7 times and continues to grow 20-25 in line with cent every month however they have been shocked to look two-times expansion in voice traffic which has building up load on networks.
"Telecom operators said they are scaling up investment in infrastructure to cater to growth in the traffic," she said.
Today's meeting comes at a time when Trai's new and more stringent name drop laws have come into drive. In fact, the quarter ended December will mark the first instance of reporting underneath the new system.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has already asked the operators to publish their network-related data for checking provider high quality underneath the new benchmarks.
Over the closing two years, mobile provider high quality has remained a burning issue, irking consumers. In 2016, the regulator had even ordered operators to compensate customers for name drops (Re 1 for every name dropped) however the missive was struck down via the Supreme Court.
The DoT had, in a series of meeting over the previous few quarters, asked telecom firms to undertake fast measures to make stronger name high quality together with putting in place additional mobile towers around the country.
Telcos have commited over Rs 74,000 crore to curb call drops: Telecom Secy
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