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TRAI will enforce the call drop regulation: Ravi Shankar Prasad

New Delhi: The regulator TRAI will enforce its order on call drops, which makes it mandatory for telcos to compensate customers for failed calls, as the Delhi High Court has upheld the decision, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Tuesday. I have not examined the judgement but the penalty incentive and disincentive regulations of Trai has been upheld by the court, so Trai will enforce it," Prasad said when asked about High Court upholding the call drop decision. "I have been told that telecom operators have put up 65,000 base tower stations across the country in the last six months, of which 2500 are in Delhi," he said. The Delhi High Court yesterday upheld Trai's decision making it mandatory for cellular operators to compensate subscribers for call drops from January 1, 2016.

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