Trai strengthens norms on reporting mobile towers, seeks to improve service quality

New Delhi: The telecom sector regulator has strengthened reporting rules around base stations or mobile towers, asking operators to provide granular details like site location, radiating frequency, backhaul connectivity, technology utilised like 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G and time of commissioning of a site etc as it looks to improve quality of service (QoS) and address the problem of call drops.

The telcos now have to provide exact details of a site in a district or town, or a village as mentioned on the local government directory. Earlier, the data used to be submitted on a telecom circle level.