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TRAI releases report on Independent Drive Tests conducted in Nine cities including Bhubaneshwar

Newdelhi:5/3/25:TRAI, through its appointed agency, conducted Independent Drive Tests (IDT) in nine cities, highways, and railway routes viz. Aligarh city and Meerut to Dehradun Railway route (UP-West LSA), Bhubaneshwar city (Odisha LSA), Jammu City & Jammu to Srinagar Highway (J&K LSA), Lucknow city and Fatehpur to Varanasi Highway (UP-East LSA), Navi-Mumbai city (Mumbai LSA), Raipur city (MP LSA), Siliguri, Darjeeling &Kalimpong city (West Bengal LSA), Thiruvananthapuram city (Kerala LSA) and Vapi-Rewari Highway (Gujarat LSA). Drive tests were conducted to assess the quality of service provided by Cellular Mobile Telephone Service providers for voice and data services in December 2024.

In IDT, the performance of M/s Bharti Airtel Ltd., M/s BSNL/MTNL, M/s Reliance Jio Infocom Ltd. and M/s Vodafone Idea Ltd., providing services in a Licensed Service Area (LSA) through various technologies (like 2G/ 3G/ 4G/ 5G) for voice and data, has been measured by conducting drive test. The observations presented in drive test reports represent the performance of the service providers in the area/ route under test on the day/ time of conducting the drive test.

The following Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Voice as well as Data service were assessed for the networks of all Telecom service providers operating in the region.

  1. Voice services:
  1. Call setup success rate
  2. Drop call rate (DCR)
  3. Speech Quality using MOS (mean opinion score)
  4. Downlink & Uplink packet (voice) drop rate
  5. Call Silence Rate
  6. Coverage (%)- Signal strength
  1. Data Service:
  1. Data Throughput (Downlink and Uplink both)
  2. Packet drop rate (Downlink & Uplink)
  3. Video streaming delay
  4. Latency
  5. Jitter
  1. The details of drive tests conducted in the nine areas are given below:
S. No. City / Routes Covered Licensed Service Area Period of Drive Test Distance Covered Performance summary

(attached at)

1 Aligarh & Meerut to Dehradun Railway Route UP West 16-12-2024 to 20-12-2024 City:204 Kms

Walk Test: 7.3 Kms

Railway: 242 Kms

Annexure A
2 Bhubaneshwar Odisha 10-12-2024 to 13-12-2024 City:355.8 Kms

Walk Test: 10.8 Kms

Annexure B
3 Jammu City & Jammu to Srinagar Highway J&K 09-12-2024 to 13-12-2024 City:257.5 Kms

Highway:295 Kms

Annexure C
4 Lucknow & Fatehpur to Varanasi Highway UP East 09-12-2024 to 13-12-2024 City:370.2 Kms

Walk Test: 5.5 Kms

Highway: 248 Kms

Annexure D
5 Navi-Mumbai Mumbai 16-12-2024 to 20-12-2024 City: 350.26 Kms

Walk Test: 12.85 Kms

Railway: 31.03 Kms

Coastal: 6.71 Kms

Annexure E
6 Raipur Madhya Pradesh 02-12-2024 to 05-12-2024 City: 315 Kms

Walk Test: 5.2 Kms

Annexure F
7 Siliguri, Darjeeling &Kalimpong West Bengal 01-12-2024 to 09-12-2024 City:467 Kms

Walk Test: 2.05 Kms

Annexure G
8 Thiruvananthapuram Kerala 02-12-2024 to 06-12-2024 City: 177 Kms

Walk Test: 13 Kms

Highway: 224 Kms

Railway: 212 Kms

Annexure H
9 Vapi-Rewari Highway Gujarat 17-12-2024 to19-12-2024 Highway: 1242.64 Kms Annexure I
  1. The detailed reports are available at TRAI website www.trai.gov.in. For any clarification/information, Shri Tejpal Singh, Advisor (QoS-I) TRAI may be contacted on email: [email protected] or at Tel. No. +91-11-20907759.

Click here to see Annexure

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