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.
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
