An analysis by Crisil Research reveals that the number of base stations installed by Indian mobile service providers is not sufficient enough to provide high-quality services to the rapidly growing population of Indian subscribers.
Indian subscribers, on an average, talk 50% more than those in the rest of the world - the average minutes of use (MoU) in India is around 1.5 times the world average. However, the number of base transceiver stations (base stations) per million subscribers in India is only 25% higher than the global average. Base station inadequacy is one of the key causes of poor quality of service such as network congestion, call drops, and poor voice quality.
Although network traffic has grown exponentially in India over the last two years - an annual subscriber growth of 73% and an annual 17% growth in average minutes of use (MoU) - operators have continued to focus on rolling out networks in newer areas over augmenting the capacity of existing networks.Regulator needs to expand their focus exclusively from increasing coverage to promoting a balance between increasing coverage and improving QoS in covered.
Source: Cellular News
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