India's telecoms regulator, the TRAI has reported that congestion at the Point of Interconnection (POI) between various service providers on the Indian cellular networks has declined slightly during the Months of April, May and June. The report only includes the Service Providers who do not meet the TRAI stipulated POI Congestion benchmark of 0.5 per cent of the calls taking place between two networks, meaning that only 1 out of 200 calls are allowed to be disrupted.
The TRAI says that the "result of the monitoring reveals that in a number of areas, the degree of congestion between the operators is alarming. In a number of cities, the level of congestion between the networks of different operators is far more than this benchmark."
The POI Congestion Report analysis for the month of April, 2007 to June, 2007 shows that the performance of the CMSPs with respect to the congestion on POIs has improved a little in the month of June, 2007as compared with the performance in March, 2007. The number of POIs having congestion has decreased from 499 in March, 2007 to 457 in June, 2007.
The Circles/ States are badly affected due to POI congestion are Bihar, Gujarat, J & K, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, North East, Orissa, Rajasthan, Tamilnadu and West Bengal.
Posted to the site on 30th September 2007
No. of POIs having Congestion Level
No. of POIs having Congestion Level >0.5%
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