Call drop rate rises to 24.59% for April-June period: Trai
New Delhi: Indicating worsening of services, telecom regulator Trai on Tuesday said mobile operators had a call drop rate of as much as 24.59 per cent for 2G services and 16.13 per cent for 3G services in the April-June quarter.Trai said the performance has deteriorated during the quarter on sequential basis with regard to worst affected mobile sites or cells having more than 3 per cent
call drop rate. Trai said worst affected cells call drop rate increased to 24.59 per cent during the April-June period from 12.50 per cent in January-March period for 2G services whereas for 3G services, the call drop rate increased to 16.13 per cent from 15.96 per cent in the preceding quarter.
Steel industry delegation meets ComMin; raises dumping concern
New Delhi: A delegation of steel industry today met Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and raised their concerns about dumping of the commodity from China, Korea and Japan. "Delegation from steel industry met me. Discussed issues arising out of dumping of steel from China, Korea and Japan. Told the delegation that interest of user industry has also to be balanced. Advised steel industry to give data to support their claim," Sitharaman tweeted. In September, the Government had imposed provisional safeguard duty of 20 per cent on import of certain categories of steel with a view to protect domestic producers from recent surge in inward shipments.
RBI postpones issue date of Sovereign Gold Bonds to Nov 30
New Delhi: In view of large number of applications, the Reserve Bank on Tuesday shifted the issue date of Sovereign Gold Bond by four days to November 30 to enable their smooth uploading into RBI's e-Kuber system. "large number of applications has been received by banks and post offices. To enable smooth uploading of applications into RBI's e-Kuber system, particularly by the post offices, it has since been decided to shift the issue date of the Sovereign Gold Bond from November 26, 2015 to November 30, 2015," the central bank said in a statement.