With mobile network boosters becoming a major reason for poor service quality, the Department of Telecom has asked online sellers to pull down listings of such equipment, an official statement said on Thursday.
The DoT has also carried out raids across multiple locations in South Mumbai over the last two days which led to the removal of 68 illegal boosters (or repeaters), it added.
The action comes amid frequent complaints of poor network quality in various parts of the country.
"Online platforms have also been issued notices to remove listing of illegal repeaters from their website and such companies have responded positively," Amit Gautam, who is part of DoT’s Wireless Monitoring Organisation, was quoted as saying in the statement.
"We started bringing down the illegal repeaters in November. Raids were conducted on December 22 and 23 as well.
Total 68 illegal mobile signal boosters were brought down. We could see they were all China made devices with no safety standard mark...," Gautam said.
He added the department will file FIR against vendors selling these network repeaters.