Telecom operators have added over 2,000
mobile towers in Delhi in the last three
months to check the menace of call drops.
According to an official in Department of
Telecom (DoT), as many as 2,092 mobile
sites (2G and 3G ) have been added in
Delhi service area in the past 12 weeks
which has resulted in the call drop rate to
come down considerably.
Sharing data, the official said that Bharti
Airtel, whose call drop rate was in the
range of 2.92-17.77 percent earlier, has
come down to 0.08-2.98 percent.
Vodafone’s call drops, on the other hand,
have dropped to 0.3-2.97 percent from
1.53-6.63 percent in Delhi.
Reliance Communications, which had
earlier a call drop rate in the range of
1.53-24.83 percent, has come down to
0.02-5.15 percent and that of Idea
Cellular has decreased to 0.14-2.65
percent from 3.34-10.90 percent.
Across the country, the telecom operators
have added 22,279 mobile sites in the last
three months. Apart from addition of
mobile sites, operators are also deploying
in-building solutions to check the
problem.
The operators, however, are complaining
about sealing of sites by local bodies like
MCD, which hampers their efforts to
reduce call drops. An operator on
condition of anonymity said that if MCD
seals one mobile site in an area, it affects
the remaining sites also, which makes it
difficult for them to provide good quality
services to customers.
The problem of call drops had become
acute in the past months though now it
has started to improve. Telecom Secretary
Rakesh Garg had spoken to owners of
telecom companies including Sunil Bharti
Mittal and Anil Ambani to address the
problem.
Even the telecom operators are accepting
that their current service is not up to the
mark and they are making serious efforts
to improve in providing best experience to
their customers.
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