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.
- Voice services:
- Call setup success rate
- Drop call rate (DCR)
- Speech Quality using MOS (mean opinion score)
- Downlink & Uplink packet (voice) drop rate
- Call Silence Rate
- Coverage (%)- Signal strength
- Data Service:
- Data Throughput (Downlink and Uplink both)
- Packet drop rate (Downlink & Uplink)
- Video streaming delay
- Latency
- Jitter
- 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 |
- 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.
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