Verify active mobile users: Sachin Pilot
December 6th, 2010 - 9:59 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Dec 6 (IANS) The Department of Telecom has proposed an exercise under which mobile telephony operators would verify the number of active users against the total SIM cards issued in a given area, parliament was informed Monday.
“An exercise should be done on pilot basis in a representative area to know the actual number of active users based on the visitor location register (VLR) as against number of active subscriber identity modules (SIMs) in that area,” Minister of State for Communications Sachin Pilot said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.
The VLR indicates only those connections that are active at any given point of time while the existing system counts all the connections or SIM cards that an operator has in the market.
DOT’s Delhi and Haryana telecom enforcement, resource and monitoring (TERM) cells have been asked to obtain this information.
Earlier, a report released by telecom regulator TRAI showed that all the new telcos who obtained licenses in the controversial 2G spectrun allocation in 2008 have low active customers on their networks.
According to TRAI’s figures, active users comprised only 25 percent of S Tel’s customer base, while the figures were 46 and 39 percent respectively for Sistema Shyam and Videocon.
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