Telecom services unaffected by lockdown in May: COAI

Telecom services have so far been unaffected during the lockdown in May, barring in West Bengal and Odisha. Users have been able to recharge connections and towers have not recorded any downtime.

The country has a total of 5.93-lakh telecom towers and about 1.1 billion SIM connections across three private operators and two State-run companies.

Timely recharge

“With the opening up of retail outlets across the country, mobile phone users were able to recharge their connections and make outgoing calls during the month. We also didn’t get any complaint, from operators or users, in May,” Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) Director-General Rajan S Mathews told BusinessLine.