According to industry experts, the increase in call drops is due to growing demand for data, which is leading to high concurrent usage. Data consumption has grown by 6 times whereas voice call demands have doubled over the last 12-18 months. Currently, India has around 20 lakh BTS and keeping in mind the growing consumer demand it would not be able to meet the requirement, said a Financial Express report.
Recently, a report from Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) stated that all telecom operators, except Reliance Jio, failed to meet call drop benchmark in drive test conducted by sector regulator Trai on many different highway and rail routes. It said that independent drive tests through its appointed agency were conducted on eight highways and three rail routes.
Either 3G or 2G network of Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and state-run BSNL failed to meet call drop benchmark on four highway routes and all the three railway routes. Reliance Jio name did not appear among companies that failed to meet call drop criteria on both the highway and rail routes.