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Telecom Minister expresses concerns over call drops

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NEW DELHI: Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has expressed his disappointment over call drops, saying lack of spectrum is no excuse for not resolving this problem.

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"When people come with complaint about call drop on private mobile operators network what should I tell them? Private telecom operators need to ponder on this call drop. All this is because lack of spectrum, I'm sorry. I don't buy this," he said at an event.

Prasad said that "there is need for better monitoring of entire system" to address the call drop problem.

However, defending the telecom operators, COAI Director General Rajan S Mathews said that "we disagree with the Minister. It's law of physics. We can't do much. The Minister said that he wanted to check our resources for that. I am happy to have him get it checked. It will enlighten him."

He blamed it on loaded networks and lack of installation of mobile towers . "Unless these issues are addressed, it will be difficult to resolve these problems," Mathews said.

The government will start the spectrum auction from March 4 and this would be the biggest spectrum auction in value terms.

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