TRAI to conduct drive tests in Delhi and Mumbai to check call drops by end of Sep

The tests would start on Sept 28

Telecom regulator TRAi will start undertaking drive tests in Delhi and Mumbai to retest claims of service providers of improvements in the network to arrest call drops.

From September 28, TRAI will again conduct drive tests to ascertain whether operators have taken measures to address the call drops issue, TRAI chairman R S Sharma said.

With regard to call drops issue, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has floated a discussion paper and also had discussions with CEOs of telecom operators.

TRAI Chairman R S Sharma today said the test drive in Delhi and Mumbai would start on September 28.

After meeting CEOs of telcos on September 9, the regulator had given 15 days time to the telecom operators for taking steps to address the call drops problem.

TRAI has also floated a consultation paper on compensation for call drops. "We had circulated the consultation paper. The first round of consultations was completed on September 21 and now for one week, it will be open for counter comments. On September 28, the counter comments part will also be closed," Sharma said.

TRAI would then hold open house discussion on October 1.

The final recommendations are expected to be out in mid-October.