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Mobile network congestion getting worse: TRAI
By agencies
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Friday, 02 December 2005, 20:30 IST
NEW DELHI: With more than three million mobile subscribers being added every month, the number of cities where network congestion levels are higher than the permitted benchmark has gone up to 193.
According to the latest report of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on quality of service says, the primary reason for the congestion is lack of adequate interconnection between the private cellular operators and State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL).
The report said that in August 2005, there were about 153 cities with congestion levels of more than 10 percent 20 times worse than the benchmark. By September 2005, the number increased to 193 cities and in about 72 of them, the congestion level was 40 percent or more.
As per TRAI's Regulation on Quality of Service of Basic and Cellular Mobile Telephone Services, 2005, the benchmark for congestion level is less than 0.5 percent. TRAI has also asked the operators to meet the quality benchmark by December 31.
In some of the major cities such as Patna, Agra, Lucknow, Jaipur, Chennai and Meerut, the level of congestion between the networks of different operators continued to be very high, the report says.