The Standards of Quality of Service for Wireless Data Services Regulations, 2012

New Delhi, 4th December, 2012: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of
India(TRAI) has today released “The Standards of Quality of Service for Wireless
Data Services Regulations, 2012”.


 TRAI had mandated every Cellular Mobile
Telephone Service provider or Unified Access Services provider to set up a test
set up comprising of servers and test probes to cover the entire geographical
area of coverage of different data services in the licensed service area. The
service providers are required to meet the Quality of Service benchmarks for
the wireless data services in respect of parameter such as:
(a) Provision or activation of Data Services,
(b) Successful data transmission download/upload attempts from a test server,
(c) Minimum download speed from a test server covering all tariff plans,
(d) Average Throughput for Packet data from a test server for all tariff plans,
(e) Latency for data services from a test server,
(f) PDP Context Activation Success Rate,
(g) Data Drop rate.
3.It has also been mandated that service providershave to publish at its website,
the details of all data services offered, along with their tariff, clearly indicating
the cities and towns where such data services and tariff plans are applicable.
The service providers shall not offer new data services or modifythe