New 4G, 5G mandate might soon be there for Jio, Airtel
By MYBRANDBOOK
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is reportedly planning to have new 4G and 5G guidelines for telecom companies. Despite claims of nationwide 5G rollouts, many mobile users in India still experience only 4G, even in major cities. Owing to this confusion, TRAI considers requiring telecom operators to display network coverage maps on their websites and is currently revising Quality of Service (QoS) benchmarks.
The regulator is planning to issue directives focusing on 4G and 5G availability by April-May. The mandate may have an impact on Reliance Jio and Airtel as Vodafone-Idea is still to roll out 5G services in the country.
"Consumers deserve transparency about network coverage," said a TRAI official, as per the report. He added, "Telcos should display these maps on their websites to inform users where they can access 5G or 4G."
Also, TRAI wants that operators should report outages of their over 400,000 5G base stations. "Downtime in specific areas significantly impacts network availability," explained another official. "Telcos need to report these outages."
The regulator is also planning to address the rising "call muting" problem, where poor connections force users to drop calls. "Packet loss leads to call muting," said a second official. "Since users have no choice but to disconnect, telcos must report these incidents as call drops."
The new TRAI Chairman appointed in January, Anil Kumar Lahoti stressed upon the need for stricter regulations to improve call quality. The regulator is planning for strict financial penalties for companies failing to meet QoS benchmarks at state and district levels, promoting greater accountability.
At present, at a wider "telecom circle" level, the QoS is measured. In case of an outage in a specific district within a circle, the data might not reflect the issue due to averaging. For this reason, a state and district-level measurement would provide a more precise picture, enabling targeted penalties for prolonged outages in specific areas.
However, the telecom industry opposes TRAI's proposal for state and district-level data collection. Their network rollout follows the telecom circle structure, and software systems are designed accordingly. Companies argue that sharing data state-wise would be complex due to the varying jurisdictions of licensed service areas.
The government of India intends to construct a single portal f
A single portal will be launched by the Indian government to list all of it...
OpenAI offers GPT-4o, a faster model available to all users at
GPT-4o, a faster and more sophisticated AI model, is made available to all...
Paytm brings UPI Lite Wallet for low-value transactions
Paytm’s parent company One97 Communications (OCL) is emphasizing upon UP...
BHIM to join e-commerce, competing with PhonePe and Google Pay
The government-supported payment software BHIM is getting ready to join t...
TAC SECURITY SOLUTIONS
NUMERIC INDIA, A Group Brand Legrand
FINOLEX INDUSTRIES LTD.
STERLITE TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
Technology Icons Of India 2023: Ritesh Agarwal
Ritesh Agarwal Founder & CEO of OYO Hotels & Homes-World’s fastest g...
Technology Icons Of India 2023: Alok Ohrie
Alok plays a critical role in the Government of India’s Atal Innovat...
Technology Icons Of India 2023: Sunil Gupta
Sunil Gupta is the Co-founder, Managing Partner & CEO of Yotta Infrast...
NIC bridging the digital divide and supporting government in eGovernance
The National Informatics Centre (NIC) is an Indian government departme...
NPCI leading India towards Digital payments
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is an initiative tak...
BSE provides highly secure, efficient and transparent market for trading
BSE (formerly known as Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd.) is Asia's first & t...
NETPOLEON SOLUTIONS
Netpoleon Group is a Value-Added Distributor (VAD) of Network Security...
TEXONIC INSTRUMENTS
Texonic has carved a niche for itself in the Technology Distribution i...
TECH DATA, A TD SYNNEX COMPANY
Tech Data Corporation was an American multinational distribution compa...