JOIN USUnion Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday said call drop situation in Delhi has improved but telecom operators are still beyond the quality benchmark set for mobile telephony services.
“Call drops situation has improved between July-October period. I am happy with the improvement but telecom operators still need to work to make their network better,” Prasad told reporters here.
While sharing data based on a survey conducted by TERM cell, the vigilance and resource monitoring arm of the Department of Telecom, the minister said call drop situation on the mobile network has improved but the operators are still beyond the quality parameters set for call drops.
He said situation has improved because of additional installation of mobile towers, repairing of non-functional cell sites and improvement in network design. “Earlier about 35,000 cell sites were found to be defective. In the last 25,598 were found to be defective. Out of which 13,775 have been repaired and 13,823 are pending,” Prasad said. There are total 18.33 lakh mobile sites in India installed by telecom operators.