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Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, TRAI has given 15 day time to Telecom companies to address the call drops problem.
Talking to media persons in New Delhi, TRAI Chairman RS Sharma said he told telecom firms that after 15 days, the department will have another test drive in the city of Mumbai and Delhi to check if there is any improvement in the situation or not.
Rejecting the operators’ argument that there is inadequacy of spectrum which leads to call drops, Mr Sharma said the spectrum is less is no longer valid argument because it has suddenly not shrunk, rather the spectrum has increased.
On Wednesday, in a Economist India Summit in New Delhi Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the government is not thinking any kind of penalty but don’t rule out the option if the situation doesn’t improve.
He added that if there is an issue it needs to be addressed by those who are in the game. Call drops have become a severe problem in recent months and concerns have been raised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well in this regard.
Meanwhile, the Cabinet on Wednesday cleared spectrum trading guidelines under which telecom operators will be able to sell radiowaves to other service providers.
The move will help to address the problem of spectrum shortage in the country.