DoT Secretary to meet telecom CEOs on Jan 10 to discuss call drops

Trai last year had announced revised quality of service rules, providing for a penalty of Rs 500,000 on operators if they fail to meet benchmarks

The department of telecommunications (DoT) will be meeting top executives of mobile telephone companies on Wednesday to review the continuing problem of call drops.

The meeting, to be chaired by telecom secretary Aruna Sundararajan with the chief executives, will discuss what to do. The latest set of rules on this were issued last year by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). Officials of DoT will be separately meeting Trai executives the same day on call quality.

"We want to communicate the concerns of the government on the state of call drops...to (ask them to) get their act together," Sundararajan said.

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