With the Government and operators claiming improvement on call drop front, telecom regulator Trai is conducting tests in seven cities, including Delhi and Mumbai, to find whether quality of service has improved.
A Trai official told the news agency that drive tests in seven cities across the country started on December 21 and are likely to end by January 8.
The cities are -- Delhi, Mumbai, Surat, Kolkata, Pune, Bhubaneswar and Indore. Drive tests are conducted to assess coverage and quality of service of mobile networks.
Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that call drop problem is improving and operators are putting up more tower sites.
The Minister last month said a total of 29,000 new telecom towers were installed by private telecom operators across the country after Government took strong exception to the problem of call drops.
Operators have also said that they have taken steps to rein in call drops.
Meanwhile, Trai on Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that “lack of investment” by telecom operators in network infrastructure, like mobile towers, appears to be the main reason behind the “pervasive problem” of call drops across the country.