At present, there is no proposal to upwardly revise the monthly rental of MTNL and BSNL fixed line phones, increase call charges and reduction of free calls", Minister for state for IT and telecom Shakeel Ahmad told the Rajya Sabha.
He also said the BSNL is not considering to reduce its investment in telephone projects for rural areas.
Ahmad said MTNL is meeting quality of service criteria as benchmarked by TRAI for its mobile services while in case of BSNL, some circles are not meeting parameters like 'call success rate'.
As per the performance monitoring report of the TRAI for the quarter ended December 2004, MTNL (Delhi and Mumbai) mobile service is meeting all the quality of service benchmarks by TRAI, he said.
In case of some telecom circles of BSNL, however, certain parameters such as 'call success rate' and percentage of connection with good voice quality are not being met.
Congestion in BSNL's mobile network is being observed in some areas due to limitation of network capacity, he said.
Ahmad said BSNL would augment the network capacity by 12 million lines progressively in 2005.
Replying to another query whether the government is contemplating to conduct an inquiry into Reliance Infcomm 'share episode' by some agency, Ahmad said "information is collected and will be laid on the table of the House".
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