Call drops: TRAI chairman to meet telcos bosses today

September 09, 2015 08:51

Amid rising instances of call drops, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has convened a meeting of CEOs of telecom firms today to discuss the issue and work out a solution to deal with it.

Apart from call drops, other issues concerning the industry will also be discussed at the meeting.

Industry hotshots including Gopal Vittal of Bharti Airtel, Sunil Sood of Vodafone, Gurdeep Singh of Reliance Communications and Himanshu Kapania of Idea Cellular, among others, will hold discussions with TRAI Chairman RS Sharma.

TRAI has proposed that service providers should compensate mobile subscribers for call drops and poor quality of services.

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

Analysing the issue of call drops, TRAI said operators can reduce them to a large extent by way of improving radio coverage, expanding the capacity of the network and optimising the performance of various network elements, which require both efforts and investments on their part.

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