Proposal on Compensating Users for Call Drops by October 15: Trai

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By Press Trust of India | Updated: 1 October 2015 20:06 IST
Proposal on Compensating Users for Call Drops by October 15: Trai
Sectoral regulator Trai will come out with recommendations on compensating consumers for call drops by October 15 while it will also release a service paper in the next few days listing reasons behind the menace.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Thursday conducted an open house discussion on the issue wherein all the stakeholders including mobile operators and consumer groups expressed their views.

"We will come out with recommendations on compensation to the consumers for call drops by October 15. The stakeholders can submit their written submission on the issue deliberated today by October 5," Trai Chairman R S Sharma said in New Delhi.

He further said the regulator will also come out with a quality of service paper in the next few days which will identify the reasons responsible for call drops.

"We will present the ground situation on call drops in data terms," Sharma added.

The move will help customers to determine, which player is providing better services in an area that will help them in choosing an operator.

Trai will also publish the results of the drive tests conducted by it on September 28-29 in Delhi and Mumbai in a few days.

Apart from the two metros, Trai has also conducted drive tests in five other cities including Ahmadabad and Pune recently.

It is also considering making it mandatory for telecom operators to disclose their network capacities periodically, as the regulator feels that call drop problem needs to be examined in entirety.

The operators are though opposing any move for compensation on call drops while the consumers are strongly backing it.

The operators said there are many things which are responsible for call drops and not all are under their control. They also said the cost to set up a mechanism for tracking call drops will be huge.

Bharti Airtel said during the open house that as per the licence conditions, operators are required to provide street level coverage and not inside buildings.

Indian Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had said on Wednesday that call drop problem was improving across the country.

The minister said operators have contained the problem and nearly half of the defective mobile sites have been fixed to address the menace.

The call drop problem has become acute in the last four-five months and even Prime Minister Narendra Modi has voiced serious concern over the issue.

The government recently stepped up pressure on operators to check call drops asking their promoters including Anil Ambani, Kumar Mangalam Birla and Sunil Mittal to directly intervene in the matter. It had also warned that the companies would face penal action if they fail to take corrective actions.

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