Airtel, Rcom most congested networks: Trai

Leading telecom service provider Bharti Airtel tops the list of most congested network followed by Reliance Communications, data from the Trai revealed.     

Trai today released the PoI (Point of Interconnection) report for April-June quarter, which said amongst the private service providers Bharti Airtel has the largest number of PoIs having congestion (56 PoIs as of June) followed by Reliance Communications (22 PoIs), Dishnet Wireless (21 PoIs as of March), Vodafone (19 PoIs of March) and Idea (19 PoIs).     

In order to ensure seamless interconnection, Trai has been monitoring the level of congestion at the Point of Interconnection between various service providers on monthly basis.     

This parameter signifies the ease with which a customer of one network is able to communicate with a customer of another network.

This parameter also reflects as to how effective is the interconnection between the two networks.     

The benchmark notified by Trai in the Quality of Service (QoS) Regulation of July 2005 for this parameter should be less than 0.5 per cent.

This means out of 200 calls between two operators only one call should face congestion problem.     

The PoI Congestion Report analysis shows that the performance of the Cellular Mobile Service Providers with respect to the congestion on PoIs has improved in June, 2008, as compared with the performance in March, 2008.     

The number of PoIs having congestion has decreased from 275 in March to 156 in June.      Out of these 156 POIs, the level of congestion in 86 POIs is more than 5 per cent as compared to 141 PoIs in March.     

The circles/states more affected due to PoI congestion are Bihar, Maharastra, Gujarat, Haryana, North Eastern states and Himachal Pradesh.