GP fails to comply of BTRC’s call drop benchmark

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Business Desk :
Bangladesh’s leading mobile phone operator Grameenphone has failed to comply with the benchmark set up by the telecom regulator over call drop.
Quality of Service (QoS) drive test result, carried by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), showed Grameenphone scored 3.38 percent call drop rate which was higher than the benchmark rate of 2 percent.
Second largest operator Robi achieved the call drop rate of 1.35 percent, Banglalink 0.58 percent and state-owned Teletalk 1.58 percent.
BTRC conducted the QoS drive test covering 1,350km areas of Dhaka City during November 6, 2018 to December 8, 2018. Quality of Services, especially call drop is long standing issue and got momentum when it was discussed in the parliament, reports BSS.
Bangladesh has registered a total of 222 crore minutes of call drop in September 2017 to September 2018 where market leader Grameenphone contributed the majority stake with 103.43 crore minute. Robi and Banglalink positioned as second and third with the stake of 76.18 crore minutes and 36.54 crore minutes respectively.
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