New Delhi: While addressing the problem of call drops, Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha said in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday that there would be positive results in the next three to four months.
Sinha said the government was committed to getting rid of the "taint". He said he had a meeting with telecom operators two days ago, during which instructions were given to improve the situation on call drops front.
"We will resolve the problem of call drops. In next three-four months we will see some positive results," he said during Question Hour.
Sinha said the telecom operators will invest around Rs 20,000 crore to improve their infrastructure and install one-lakh base transceiver stations (BTS) to offer better services
to customers.
Replying to a supplementary, Sinha said the Telecom Ministry is in touch with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to ensure enhancement of the validity of mobile and mobile data from present 90 days to 365 days.
"For making provision of longer validity (365 days) of mobile internet plans, as opposed to the current validity period of (maximum) 90 days, the TRAI has released 'Draft Telecom Consumers Protection (Tenth Amendment) Regulations 2016 on July 5, seeking comments of stakeholders," he said.
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