Call Drop

Trai is planning to resume the independent drives to check call drops from this month

Telecom regulator Trai is likely to resume from this month its independent drive tests to check call drops and service quality of operators.

Attorney General paves way for Rs 3,050 crore fine against Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular

The Attorney General has opined that the DoT has the power to impose a penalty on incumbent telcos over call drop issues faced by Jio

Government launches toll free IVRS system to report call drops

In a bid to tackle the call drop menace, Government has launched an Integrated Voice Response System (IVRS) system at multiple locations including Delhi and Mumbai to obtain direct feedback from subscribers on call quality.

Telecom service providers will install 150,000 towers by March 2017 to fight call drops

Trying to solve call drops, the telecom service providers have installed more than 130,000 additional base transceiver stations (BTS) across the country between June to October and plan to install more than 150,000 more BTSs till March 2017.

Trai stand on the raging telecom conflict explained in five easy steps

Jio has raised the issue of congestion leading to call drops with incumbent operators Vodafone, Airtel and Idea. Here is the Trai stand on the issue.

Call drops: Jio to report operator-wise data

Reliance Industries on Friday asked incumbent telecom service providers to provide adequate interconnect points in their network to ensure calls from Jio subscribers go through to their users, and said it will begin reporting operator-wise call failures on its web site.

Call drops issue: Telecom Minister to meet telco CEOs

Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha is scheduled to hold his first meeting with CEOs of mobile service providers on Monday to discuss industry issues in general and call drops in particular.

TRAI conducts tests in Mumbai, finds most operators not meeting call drop benchmark

TRAI tests in Mumbai showed that operators did not meet the call drop rate benchmark of <=2% with the exception of Airtel on 2G and 3G, and Vodafone on 2G.

TRAI to SC : if call drops are compensated with free calls, will re-look penalty

If companies agree to compensate call drops with free calls to consumers without pre-conditions then TRAI open to re-consider its direction imposing penalty

Call drop penalty a 'populist measure', Telecom operators tell SC

The telecom service providers on Thursday told the Supreme Court that TRAI's decision to saddle them with penalty for call drops was a "populist" measure.