The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is aiming to enhance transparency with regards to community protection claimed by telecom operators. In its latest pointers introduced final week, the nation’s telecom watchdog has directed service suppliers to show the geospatial community protection map, its availability, and the sign energy. That is stated to allow higher transparency and uniformity with regards to offering wi-fi entry service and assist make customers extra knowledgeable choices.
In accordance to TRAI, telecom service suppliers in India will probably be required to show the community protection map based mostly on precise measurement by bodily or community analytics. Alternatively, they’ll additionally depend on the trade normal prediction methodology for a similar. If the latter is utilized for the preparation of protection maps, the service supplier might want to confirm a pattern in opposition to the precise sign energy. It shall be adopted by the applying of the correction issue to make sure the community protection deduced utilizing prediction instruments is as near the precise person expertise.
| S. No. | Know-how | Color and Code | Pattern Color |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2G | Violet (#5b5bb0) | |
| 2 | 3G | Inexperienced (#0c7e0c) |  |
| 3 | 4G | Purple (#800080) | |
| 4 | 5G | Yellow (#dddd41) | |
The telecom watchdog directs operators to indicate the cell protection of 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G networks within the prescribed color scheme, with every expertise being represented in its designated color, and having the minimal prescribed sign energy on the outermost boundaries of the protection space with 50 p.c load of its most capability. Any space having sign energy beneath the aforementioned threshold will probably be thought-about as no protection space for the respective expertise, as per the watchdog.
| S. No. | Know-how | Threshold stage of sign energy at 50% cell loading |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2G | RSSI ≥ -95 dBm |
| 2 | 3G | RSCP ≥ -99 dBm |
| 3 | 4G | RSRP ≥ -110 dBm |
| 4 | 5G | RSRP ≥ -110 dBm |
The map ought to be positioned on the touchdown web page of the telecom supplier’s web site for single-click navigation, the discover acknowledged. Additional, a devoted Protection map shall be positioned within the navigation bar which ought to result in the corresponding web page. The watchdog says the protection maps are obligated to have the next parts:
- Map base layer: Shows the title of the road, highway, freeway, village district and State/UT with boundaries.
- Know-how toggle: Customers ought to have the choice to view the protection of particular applied sciences (2G, 3G, 4G, 5G). Alternatively, they have to additionally be capable of view a unified protection map.
- Search: The person ought to be capable of search the placement by wanting up the State/ UT/ District/ Metropolis/ Village title or by getting into latitude and longitude.
- Legend: The map must also have applicable legends to point the that means of various colors or info displayed on the map.
Different non-obligatory options embody the flexibility to zoom in/out, a house tab which redirects to the default place, a full-screen mode, and a my location possibility which centres the protection map on the location of the person gadget.
TRAI says telecom suppliers will even be required to replace the protection maps on a month-to-month foundation or every other frequency. That is additionally obligatory on the commissioning or the decommissioning of the cell or when a change happens within the protection because of the Licensed or Licensed Service Space (LSA) community.
