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Taking a serious note of the call drop issue, telecom regulator Trai has proposed stricter quality norms for local areas and imposing financial disincentives for poor services. At present, the quality norms are at service area level but Trai feels such a calculation may give a “different picture” about the quality of customer experience. “There could be many areas or localities within the service area where the Quality of service (QoS) could be poor. One of the options for ensuring QoS could be through increased investments for infrastructure development by...

After witnessing a de-growth for two successive months, the net subscriber base of six major telecom operators grew by 3.5 million, to reach 776.97 million users in June 2016. “Total number of GSM subscribers as of June 2016 reached 776.97 million” and “the GSM subscribers increased by 3.50 million in June 2016,” PTI report published in Economic Times quoted industry body Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) as saying. The COAI shared data of six telecom operators, Vodafone, Idea Cellular, Aircel, Telenor and MTNL, which jointly account for about 70 per cent...