Bihar AP, MP suffering from heavy mobile congestion

New Delhi, Oct 14 (UNI) The Telecom Regulatory Auhthority of India (TRAI) today said that net work congestion problems is on rise among the private mobile service providers and is high in Bihar, North East, UP (East), West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh.

The benchmark notified by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in its Quality of Service (QOS) regulations of July 2005 parameter is 0.5 per cent. This means that of 200 calls between two operators, only one should face congestion problem.

However a fresh set of monitoring by the regulator reveals that in a number of areas, the degree of congestion between the operators is alarming.

''In a number of cities, the level of congestion between the networks of different operators is far more than this benchmark,'' TRAI said.

The TRAI report said In the period under study from May 2006 to July 2006 the congestion in the Points of Intersection (POI) increased from 99 in May 2006 to 111 in July 2006.

Some of the badly hit states are Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharshtra, North East, Rajasthan, Tamil NAdu, UP-East, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh.

UNI RT CS RK1505