Call drops may end in three months, say cellular operators
Admitting that fixing the problem of call drops is the responsibility of mobile service providers, Rajan Mathews, director-general of the Cellular Operators Association of India, promises a significant improvement in quality of service within three months. We are currently at a 12 per cent call drop rate; at a general level we will be able to bring it back to 2-3 per cent … but there will still be certain pockets such as Lutyens’ Delhi and Cantonment areas which will always have a problem till we fix tower issues,” he said in an interview with The Hindu. Mr. Mathews said besides the lack of towers, change in spectrum frequencies during the last auctions was one of the reasons for a spate of call drops. On the recommendations by TRAI on compensating consumers for call drops, Mr. Mathews said, “I wish it could solve the problem but it would not.









Telecom minister Manoj Sinha claims that call drops have reduced by 60 percent


























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