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Mobile congestion to worsen in India: TRAI
By agencies
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Wednesday, 05 October 2005, 19:30 IST
NEW DELHI: Though India is the second fastest growing mobile market in the world, the growth of mobiles may not be a good news as congestion in the network will deteriorate further, a Trai study said.
The study by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said that congestion on Indian mobile networks has reached an all time high with no scope of improvement.
The study said in cities the congestion level was 20 times more than the stipulated norms. Trai blamed network congestion to the inefficient interconnect system between private operators and state owned operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the countrys third largest operator that has not kept pace with subscribers growth.
With the exponential increase in the number of subscribers in the last two years and the number of operators in each service area, the issues of efficient and adequate interconnect between operators has become very important. The benchmark for the internetwork congestion level for an acceptable quality of service is less than 0.5 percent. In a number of major and minor cities, the level of congestion between the networks of private operators and the BSNL network is far more than this benchmark and the number of such places are increasing, the Trai said.