Out of over 100 crore subscribers, only 906 complaints have been made on call drops in the last three and a half years, with Bharti Airtel and Vodafone facing the maximum number of grievances on the issue. Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha shared data on complaints received by sector regulator Trai, which show that 906 grievances related to call drops have been made since 2013.
Around 87 per cent of this were made in 2015 and till June-end 2016. While 450 complaints were received by the Telecom Regulatory Authorityof India in 2015, 338 have been made till June 2016. In 2015, Vodafone received 129 call drop complaints and Airtel 120. It is followed by Reliance Communications (58), Idea Cellular (43), BSNl (40), Aircel (22), Tata Teleservices (13), MTS (8), Telenor (7) and Videocon (3).