According to TRAI, telecom service suppliers in India might be required to show the community protection map based mostly on precise measurement by means of bodily or community analytics. Alternatively, they will additionally depend on the business customary 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 towards the precise sign power. 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 consumer expertise.
The telecom watchdog directs operators to point out the cell protection of 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G networks within the prescribed color scheme, with every know-how being represented in its designated color, and having the minimal prescribed sign power on the outermost boundaries of the protection space with 50 p.c load of its most capability. Any space having sign power beneath the aforementioned threshold might be thought-about as no protection space for the respective know-how, as per the watchdog.
| S. No. | Technology | Threshold stage of sign power 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 needs to be positioned on the touchdown web page of the telecom supplier’s web site for single-click navigation, the discover acknowledged. Further, a devoted Coverage 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: Displays the identify of the road, highway, freeway, village district and State/UT with boundaries.
- Technology toggle: Users ought to have the choice to view the protection of particular applied sciences (2G, 3G, 4G, 5G). Alternatively, they need to additionally have the ability to view a unified protection map.
- Search: The consumer ought to have the ability to search the placement by trying up the State/ UT/ District/ City/ Village identify or by coming into latitude and longitude.
- Legend: The map must also have applicable legends to point the which means of various colors or data displayed on the map.
Other non-compulsory options embody the power 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 consumer machine.
TRAI says telecom suppliers can even be required to replace the protection maps on a month-to-month foundation or every other frequency. This can also be obligatory on the commissioning or the decommissioning of the cell or when a change happens within the protection as a result of Licensed or Authorized Service Area (LSA) community.
