SC asks TRAI to apprise it on amending call drops regulations

ProMASS News Bureau: Mar 18, 2016:

The Supreme Court has asked the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) whether it could consider amending regulations to impose penalty on telecom firms for call drops. The court said, prima facie it appeared that TRAI’s technical papers, which cite reasons for call drops, contradicted the ruling made in October last year.

It also asked the Telecom Regulator to explain why the technical papers on the issue were released a month after the regulations came into being. TRAI’s technical paper says, call drops in networks are not only due to the service providers and there could be several other reasons for it.